Panama, Guatemala Ready
Free Trade
Panama Trade and
Industry Minister
Alejandro Ferrer
expressed satisfaction
on Tuesday that
negotiations for free
trade with Guatemala is
90 percent advanced.
Ferrer said he will
resume talks Wednesday
with his Guatemalan
counterpart Jose Carlos
Garcia, who will arrive
today.
They are still to
discuss tomato
byproducts, vegetable
oil, and products with
high content of sugar,
paper and cardboard.
Chief Panamanian
negotiator Leroy Sheffer
explained that the goal
is to achieve the
broadest access to a
market of 13 million
people where many
Panamanian products and
services have true
potential growth.
Last year bilateral
trade grew 15 percent
over that of 2006, for
$120 million.
Panama has free trade
accords with other
Central American
countries and plans to
negotiate a similar
accord with the EU en
bloc. |
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