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Quito, July 21st. – The Minister of Commerce, Pablo Campana begins today a tour that will take him to Mexico to promote greater participation of Ecuador in the Pacific Alliance. and in the United States insist on the reactivation of the Council of Commerce and Bilateral Investment (ICT).
A Ministry source confirmed to Efe that Campana will be relocating at 23:00 local time (04:00 GMT Sunday) to Puerto Vallarta (Mexico) for the Presidential Summit of the Pacific Alliance, a trade pact between Chile Colombia, Peru and Mexico.
"It is a very important event for Ecuador.We are working to recover the lost time of international trade policy, which was very poor in the past administration" Campana said Efe last Wednesday.
In Mexico, an Ecuadorian business delegation, led by Patricio Alarcón, Chairman of the Ecuadorian Enterprise Committee and the Quito Chamber of Commerce, will attend Monday at the 5th Business Meeting of the group, in which they promote membership in the Alliance.
Last March, the President of the Equator, Lenin Moreno indicated that his government would "carefully" study the possibility of joining the Pacific Alliance (19459008) .
"This is an interesting regional integration initiative that we will badyze carefully. Let's not forget that we are observers of this process, "said Moreno after his visit to Mexico
. After his visit to Mexico, Campana will travel to the United States where he will meet his American colleague Wilbur Ross and other senior officials. 19659003] "United States .It is the main trading partner as a country because a bloc is the European Union.From 2014 to 2017, we experienced a decline in exports to the United States. by 25% and the United States Campaña attributed the decline to the loss of "competitiveness" of Ecuador, also because "neighboring countries have a trade agreement." "With Washington.
Your goal in this new tour, which will take you to Washington, Chicago, New York, and Houston, is to emphasize the reactivation of ICTs and to be able to resume negotiations for a trade agreement that "benefits both parties." "
" It is very important that the United States consider the decline affecting the business sectors, Ecuadorian and North American, and we can reactivate the ICTs, as well as start negotiations to achieve to a trade agreement " he said.
On his visit to the United States. Campana is also seeking to follow talks during Vice President Mike Pence's recent visit, in which Ecuador asked Washington "to include some products that were omitted" from the Andean law on tariff preferences and eradication. EFE
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