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Pacific Alliance makes its official presentation in New York with three presidents
The Pacific Alliance made its official presentation in New York before 200 business people and investors, mostly from the US, with four top anchor men: the presidents of Chile, Peru and Colombia and Mexico’s foreign trade minister since head of state Enrique Peña Nieto had to remain in the country because of the catastrophic floods. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI am interested. What they have to sell?
Sep 26th, 2013 - 10:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0All they have what the Mercosur members haven´t....!!!
Sep 27th, 2013 - 12:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0Economies well managed, stability, growth, low corruption......
Colombia's stable? Mexico has growth? Peru is uncorrupted?
Sep 27th, 2013 - 02:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Great, looks like the best LATAM organization.
Sep 27th, 2013 - 02:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Sep 27th, 2013 - 03:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In general they sell: energy, agro industry products, manufactures. outsourcing, etc. But this they all as individual countries sell already, what is interesting of this bloc apart from their pragmatic over the political actitude, is their search to unite their capital, force of work, infraestructure, investment. services, ppl, students, etc. to develop the quality of what they sell, their services,etc. and in that way benefice their populations.
Curiosly, they are not that different from Mercosur in it`s first years, except for one thing, Mercosur wanted to be similar to the EU in having a great internal trade while putting some barriers around themselves with countries from other regions. Pacific Alliance wants to develop great internal trade, just like Mercosur, while at the same time benefice from interaction/trade with Asia-Pacific primarily, and other regions around the world.
Both are interesting approaches, but atm I prefer the Pacific Alliance because atm it can benefice greatly from trade with Asia-Pacific and the world in general, and because their pragmatic approach was born from a real wish of closer ties inside the region. The political approach of UNASUR and CELAC is certainly neccesary for closer regional ties, but those efforts need also the economic sphere, in that both Pacific Alliance and Mercosur are very important, if there ever was an agreetment between both economic blocs it would be great news for the entire region IMO. Greetings :-)
The PA has GREAT things going for them:
Sep 27th, 2013 - 06:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 01) they are NOT Mercosur;
2) they do not stab each other in the back in a spirit of “brotherly love”;
3) they do not have Venezuela contaminating everything they do;
4) they do not have The Dark Country sowing bile and mistrust in everything they do;
5) they will never have Uruguay as a member while the old commie is in power;
6) it seems they understand not everything is rosy but they are working at it, they PLAN FFS.
Not a bad start considering it’s only two years old.
5@ A magnificent explanation about the differences between both groups, one based on agreements and the other in disagreement, but essentially in their approach to the economic policies to develop their members and opening grade to external countries, one on an open economy and the other on protectionism....and the most important, the PA is just a trade agreement different to Mercosur which is a political more than an economic agreement.....
Sep 28th, 2013 - 12:05 pm - Link - Report abuse 0In 2 years the PA has advanced more than the Mercosur in its long life.....and it´s expected to have a greater difference as the time goes by......
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