identify specific barriers to exporting and to measure their importance. We develop a model of firm-level export dynamics that … customs records of U.S. imports of manufactures from Colombia we replicate patterns of exporter maturation. A potentially … response of total export sales to an exchange rate shock exceeds the 1-year response by about 40 percent, with the 1-year …

A free-trade agreement (FTA) between the United States and Colombia has been stalled in the U.S. Congress for more than … on January 25, 2011, President Obama highlighted his National Export Initiative as a way to promote growth and the …, and Colombia: "Now, before I took office, I made it clear that we would enforce our trade agreements, and that I would …