U.S., Colombia play key role in future of Americas
When President Barack Obama came into office, one of his priorities was to push forward and implement the U.S.-Colombia trade promotion agreement. The agreement celebrated its first anniversary on May 15. That’s good news for Texas, which has the highest dollar amount of U.S. exports to Colombia. The U.S. and Colombia have had a strong relationship More...
Colombia to continue dollar purchases to keep peso ‘competitive’: Finance Minister
Mauricio Cardenas (Photo: El Espectador) Colombia will continue buying dollars in order to keep its currency competitive, said Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas on Wednesday. Colombia will continue its current More...
Cardenas Sees No Reason to Change Colombia’s Monetary Stance
category-light Colombian Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas said there’s no need to change the country’s monetary stance, as consumer confidence rebounds and growth picks up. “The unanimous vision of the policy More...
Colombia’s Ecopetrol Sees Shares Fall to Lowest in 18 Months
Shares of Colombian state oil company Ecopetrol (EC), whose earnings have disappointed investors in recent quarters as it struggles to notch new discoveries, fell under 4,000 pesos Monday for the first time in 18 More...
U.S. exports to Colombia have climbed by 20 percent
In the year since the U.S.-Colombia Free Trade Agreement has been in effect, Colombian exports to the United States have ticked up only marginally, but U.S. exports to Colombia have climbed by 20 percent. While More...
Venezuela-Colombia trade above US$800 million
El Universal – The President of the Chamber of Venezuelan-Colombian Economic Integration (Cavecol) Luis Alberto Russian said that in the first four months of this year bilateral trade was above USD 800 million, More...
Colombia Banker: More Cuts May Overheat Economy
Wall Street Journal – Colombia’s central-bank officials will meet on May 31 to discuss possible action on interest rates. While some key economic data including industrial production continue to disappoint, More...
Colombia: Reduction of banana exports
In the first year of the FTA between Colombia and the US, traders are facing reported declines of 0.8% in volume and 15% in export value of agricultural produce, especially in regard to bananas heading to the United More...
Colombia’s Other Copyright Bill: Moving Things In The Right Direction?
If you wanted an indication of just how much copyright has moved on from being a dry and boring topic of interest only to a few specialist lawyers to an exciting area full of surprising twists and turns worthy of More...
Quad/Graphics Soon To Be Colombia’s Top Commercial Printer
Quad/Graphics-Bogotá will become Colombia’s largest commercial printer in terms of production capacity after it installs a new, highly productive 64-page web offset press this year. Designed for high-quality, More...
