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International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean 2019

Adverse Global Conditions Leave the Region Lagging Further Behind

  • Author: UN, ECLAC
  • Publication date: February 2020
  • Page count: 188
  • Language(s) in this book: English
  • Sales number: 19.II.G.5

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The global trade performance in 2019 was the worst since the international financial crisis. This edition analyses that performance, as well as the mounting trade tensions and their repercussions for the region’s own trade. The heavy slowdown in global trade is the result of the build-up of trade barriers since 2018, as well as longer-standing factors, including weaker global demand, increasing import substitution in some economies, the smaller share of Chinese production going for export, the shrinking of global value chains and the emergence of new technologies that impact trade. Also highlighted is that trade has both positive and negative impacts on the environment.