In the framework of the Summit of the European Union and Latin America, which begins May 18 in Madrid (Spain), representatives of governments of the European block and the Minister of Commerce, Industry and Tourism Luis Guillermo Plata, signed the Agreement Commercial also negotiated with Peru. It is an essential step, "said the owner of the portfolio of Commerce, noted that in this way the text of the agreement is ready for final signature and to take the legislative process for the respective conferences. In this negotiation, he said, Colombia achieved a beneficial result for the access of goods and services and disciplines to be negotiated.On the GSP, the Minister said it was favorable to the consolidation and deepening reached the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). The preferential access to Colombia today is in the EU under the GSP Plus, responsibility for the fight against drugs is one-sided and at any time can be suspended by the EU. "It is therefore very important for traders to have clear and stable rules provided by the Agreement," he said. He stressed the importance of mechanisms for the import duty exemption for raw materials, applied in Colombia under Plan schemes Vallejo and Free Zones, to produce goods for export to the EU at the preferential treatment granted.
The owner of the portfolio of Commerce highlighted as an achievement to have secured preferential terms agreed for the agricultural and industrial goods, together with the disciplines in customs and trade facilitation, technical barriers to trade and sanitary and "fitosanitarias" measures, which it defines the Worlds Organization of Health (OMS.) These issues will ensure transparency and certainty for the entry of our exports to a market near the 500 million people, which is the world's leading exporter of goods (million USD 1.7 million) and second in cart (USD 1.95 million million) with a per capital income of more than U.S. $ 32,000, said the Minister.

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