International Trade Outlook for Latin America and the Caribbean: Recovery in an uncertain context

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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC)
Tables
Table I.1 Expected impacts of automation in employment............................................................................ 40
Table I.2 World, selected regions and countries: variation in trade in goods, January to June 2017
compared with January to June 2016............................................................................................. 42
Table I.3 World (selected countries): variation in trade in services by value, January to June 2017
compared with January to June 2016............................................................................................. 42
Table I.4 Latin America and the Caribbean: variations in exports of goods and services
by value, first half of 2016 and first half of 2017............................................................................ 43
Table I.5 Latin America and the Caribbean: variation in trade in goods by value and trading partners,
January to June 2016 compared with January to June 2017......................................................... 44
Table I.6 Latin America and the Caribbean: year-on-year variation in the prices of main export
commodities, January to April 2017, January to August 2017 and projection for 2017................ 48
Table I.7 Latin America and the Caribbean (selected groupings and countries): projected variations
in foreign trade by price, volume and value, 2017.......................................................................... 52
Table I.8 Caribbean Community (CARICOM): projected variations in external trade, 2017.......................... 54
Table I.9 Latin America and the Caribbean: variation in value of intraregional and intrasubregional
exports, by sector and by integration scheme, January-June 2017
compared with the year-earlier period............................................................................................ 58
Table I.10 Latin America and the Caribbean (selected groupings and Mexico): tariff protection
and tariff equivalents of non-tariff and administrative barriers applicable
to intraregional imports, 2002-2011................................................................................................ 63
Table I.11 Mexico and the United States: existing preferences under the North American
Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and tariffs applied in a scenario
of denunciation of the agreement................................................................................................... 64
Table I.12 Mexico: variations in imports from the United States and the rest of Latin America
and the Caribbean in three alternative scenarios........................................................................... 66
Table I.A1.1 Latin America and the Caribbean (selected groupings and countries): variations in the value
of services trade, first half of 2017 relative to the same period in 2016 ....................................... 71
Table I.A1.2 Mexico: variation in the market share of imports from the United States and Latin America
and the Caribbean in three scenarios.............................................................................................. 72
Table I.A1.3 Latin America and the Caribbean: value of exports and imports, 2015-2017................................. 73
Table I.A1.4 Latin America and the Caribbean: variations in exports to selected destinations
by value, 2016 and 2017 ................................................................................................................. 74
Table I.A1.5 Latin America and the Caribbean: variations in imports from selected origins
by value, 2016 and 2017 ................................................................................................................. 74
Table II.1 Latin American and Caribbean countries in top 55 ranking of A.T. Kearney
and Tholons, 2009, 2016 and 2017................................................................................................ 108
Table II.2 Latin America (selected countries): double taxation treaties, 2017............................................. 111
Table II.3 Selected subregional trade agreements: provisions on trade in services, 2017.......................... 114
Table II.4 MERCOSUR and the Pacific Alliance: GATS-plus and GATS-extra commitments, 2017.............. 117
Table III.1 Latin America and the Caribbean: composition of agricultural exports by category,
2000 and 2015 .............................................................................................................................. 137
Table III.2 Latin America and the Caribbean: 10 main agricultural products exported to the world,
2000 and 2016............................................................................................................................... 137
Table III.3 Latin America and the Caribbean: composition of agricultural imports by category,
2000 and 2015............................................................................................................................... 138
Table III.4 Latin America and the Caribbean: main agricultural products exported to selected
destinations, 2016......................................................................................................................... 141
Table III.5 Latin America and the Caribbean: trade agreements between countries and groupings
of the region with selected partners, as of August 2017.............................................................. 148
Table III.6 World population distribution by regions, 2015 and 2030............................................................ 149
Table III.A1.1 Latin America and the Caribbean (30 countries): value of agricultural exports, 2007-2016............ 152
Table III.A1.2 Latin America and the Caribbean (30 countries): value of agricultural imports, 2007-2016............ 153
Table III.A1.3 Latin America and the Caribbean (27 countries): distribution of agricultural exports
by destination, 2016...................................................................................................................... 154
Table III.A1.4 Latin America and the Caribbean (27 countries): distribution of agricultural imports
by origin, 2016............................................................................................................................... 155
Table III.A1.5 Latin America and the Caribbean (26 countries): five main agricultural products exported,
by country, 2016............................................................................................................................. 156