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New: Global Trade Map 2016

Supply Chain Movement

Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) and Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) are designed to boost economic growth through trade by opening markets by way of progressive removal of customs duties, eliminating or reducing trade barriers and tariffs, lifting restrictions on services and even through public procurement. French Guiana. French Polynesia.

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To build a stronger supply chain, U.S. should look to its neighbors

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political leaders and geopolitical analysts advocate procuring more goods from other democratic countries. from Guatemala—the most populous and closest Central American country—$2.1 Transport and logistics infrastructure must be improved substantially, especially in Central America. billion were agricultural products and $1.45