A region which harbors 30% of the world population - 1,700 million inhabitants - and produces 14% of the global economy, and that, in addition, shows the biggest commercial growth rates of the last two decades appears to be the inexorable fate for a country which needs to increase substantially...

Trade between the countries of the Andean Community (AC) and Mercosur showed a positive trend throughout the nineties, although it slowed down in the second half of the decade and beginning of this decade. It can also be seen that if trade flows between the AC and Mercosur are adjusted according...