Cooperation and Regional Integration in Latin America and the Caribbean
Cooperation and regional integration in Latin America and the Caribbean COOPERATION AND REGIONAL INTEGRATION ORGANIZATIONS IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN United States Canada UNASUR Andean Community, CAN (1996) United States Caribean Community, CARICOM (1973) Saint Kitts & Nevis Antigua & Barbuda Central American Common Market, Bahamas Montserrat CACM (1960) Dominica Saint Lucia Mexico Saint Vicent & Granadines Cuba Dominican Rep. Common Market of the South, Jamaica Grenada MERCOSUR (1991) Belize Haiti Barbados Honduras Trinidad & Tobago Guatemala North American Free Trade El Salvador Nicaragua Agreement, NAFTA (1992) Panama Costa Guyana Rica Venezuela Surinam Central American Integration System, SICA (1993) Colombia Equador LAIA: Mexico, Cuba, Chile, countries of the Andean Community and Mercosur Brazil Peru IBERO-AMERICAN COMMUNITY: Andorra, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Bolivia Equador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Portugal, Dominican Republic, Spain, Uruguay Paraguay and Venezuela RIO GROUP: Argentina, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Chile Uruguay Rica, Cuba, Equador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Argentina Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Dominican Republic, Surinam, Uruguay and Venezuela OAS: all the American independent States except Cuba 127 LATIN AMERICAN INTEGRATION in different ways because of prices and volumes. Countries ex- ASSOCIATION (LAIA) porting basic products suffered drops in prices while exporters The ongoing effects of the world financial crisis resulted in of manufactured goods were affected by the reduced volume diminished growth and a slump in international trade in 2009. of goods exchanged. As for imports, in general, slowdowns According to estimates compiled in the IMF report World Eco- were basically due to the diminished volume of purchases.
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