Central America reverses global slowdown in exports

The marked deceleration that international trade in goods has experienced this decade, and which has deepened since late 2018, will negatively affect Latin America and the Caribbean’s foreign trade performance in 2019, ECLAC indicates in a new annual report released today at a press conference in Mexico City led by its Executive Secretary, Alicia Bárcena.

In contrast to South America, in 2019, Central America, the Caribbean and Mexico will experience increases in the value of their exports, Eclac reports.