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UNITED STATES

AND

COLOMBIA



• Is a federal constitutional republic comprising fiftystates and a federal district.

• Population : 314.010.000

• Capital : Washington DC

• GDP total: $15.094 trillion (2011 estimate)

• GDP per capita : $48,386



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United States Agriculture: 1.2%

Industries: 19.2%

Services: 79.6% (2011 est.)

LABOR FORCE

153.6 million 2011 est.

EXPORTS

$1.511 trillion (2011 est.)

EXPORTS - PARTNERS(%)

Canada 19%, Mexico 13.3%, China 7%, Japan 4.5% (2011)

IMPORTS

$2.314 trillion (2011 est.)

GDP - COMPOSITION BY SECTOR(%)



• Is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-

two departments.

• Population : 46,366,364

• GDP Total : $471.964 billion

• GDP per capita : $10,248



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Colombia Agriculture: 7%

Industry: 37.6%

Services: 55.5% (2011 est.)

GDP - COMPOSITION BY SECTOR(%)

22,450,000 2011 est.

LABOR FORCE

$56.5 billion (2011 est.)

EXPORTS

$54.7 billion (2011 est.)

IMPORTS

US 38%, EU 15%, China 3.5%, Ecuador 3.4% (2011 est.)

EXPORTS - PARTNERS(%)

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Colombia and United State

Colombia – UnitedStates relations have

evolved from mutual

cordiality during most

of the 19th and early

20th

Including :

•fighting communism, the War on

Drugs, and especially since 9/11,

the threat of terrorism

The United States has always been

Colombia’s major trading partner. In

the years between 1970 and 1990,the United States represented about

38% of the total Colombian imports

and 33% of the total exports



20th

century

Mid 20th

century

• In 1903 the US and Colombia negotiated a new treaty

- About Hay-Herran Treaty.

• In 1928, US business interests were threatened in

Colombia. (US corporation United Fruit bananaplantations)

Appears the FARC. The FARC became the largest threat

to the Colombia government and American

multinationals today.

The US government focused on the destruction of the

FARC and other left-wing guerrilla movements.



Late 20th

Century

.kill crops and laboratories in any way

Both before and after September 11, 2001, the US

government's provided military and economic aid

to Colombia.

In May 2001, the Bush administration introduced

the Andean Regional Initiative (ARI), which

broadened U.S. intervention throughout the entire

region, directing another $800 million to the

project over Plan Colombia.

In July 2002, "the U.S. Congress passed a bill for

additional costs of emergency lifted a previous

provision that limits U.S. assistance .

According to Amnesty International, "the new US

strategy makes US assistance to Colombia available

for counter-insurgency activities for the first time,

including direct action against armed groups



AGREEMENTS

• ATPA and Free Trade Agreement between

Colombia and the U.S.

• APTDEA

• Notice of CAFTA on bovine meat

• Measures Act in the U.S. Bioterrorism

Bioterrorism



ATPA y APTDEA

The Andean Trade Preference Act-

ATPA, is a unilateral program of tariff

preferences granted by the United

States in the year 1992 to the Andean

countries (Colombia, Bolivia, Ecuador

and Peru), under which the United

States. allows duty-free entry of

certain articles, which are

grown, produced or

manufactured in a beneficiary

country and meet the

requirements.

OBJECTIVES

• Support the efforts of the Andean countries in the fight against drugproduction and trafficking.

• Create alternatives to illegal cultivation and drug traffic.

• Increased market access for U.S.

- Removing barriers to about 5,600 products



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Impact of ATPA

• Production doubled between 1992 and 2000

(USD 629 million to USD 1.270 million)

• Creation of 130,000 jobs between 1992 and

2000

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• Is an extension of APTA

• Valid until December 31, 2006

Andean Trade Preference and Drug Eradication Act



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ATPA and Sheltered products by

ATPDEA

ATPDEA

Reduction: Some products and leathergoods.

Excluded: clothing and textiles,

petroleum and petroleum products,

watches and parts, tuna, Ron, sugar,

syrups and products subject to quota

sugar.

Includes all products exceptexpressly excluded (5,600 + 700

approximately)

Excluded: textiles, rum and rum,

sugars, syrups and products with

subject to quota sugar and tuna

prepared or preserved in any

way

ATPA



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Exportaciones de los países beneficiarios del ATPA-ATPDEA a Estados Unidos

Millones de US$ FOB

País 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002

Var %

2002/ 1993

Colombia 3,010 3,132 3,807 4,421 4,615 4,442 5,883 6,681 5,623 5,382 78.80%

Ecuador 1,389 1,710 1,939 1,975 2,139 1,774 1,853 2,267 1,975 2,116 52.30%

Perú 698 780 965 1,203 1,706 1,925 1,871 1,985 1,806 1,953 179.80%

Bolivia 185 257 257 268 213 220 224 184 165 160 -13.50%

Total 5,282 5,880 6,969 7,868 8,674 8,361 9,830 11,117 9,569 9,611 82.00%

Fuente: USITC



Exports of the beneficiary countriesATPA-ATPDEA- to U.S.

Millions US$ FOB

I USA d ATPDEA



Source: Office of the United States Trade Representative

Imports USA under ATPDEATotal percentage by origin country and by year



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Años Exportaciones Importacione Balanza

1991 7,244 4,569 2,675.7

1992 7,065 6,145 920.4

1993 7,123 9,089 -1,965.2

1994 8,538 11,094 -2,556.4

1995 10,201 12,952 -2,751.3

1996 10,648 12,792 -2,144.3

1997 11,549 14,369 -2,820.2

1998 10,866 13,768 -2,902.4

1999 11,617 9,991 1,626.0

2000 13,158 10,998 2,160.5

2001 12,330 11,997 333.3

2002 11,975 11,897 78.2

2003 13,129 13,026 102.8

2004 16,788 15,649 1,139.7

2005 21,190 19,799 1,391.52006 24,391 24,534 -143.0

2007 29,991 30,816 -824.3

2008 37,626 37,155 470.5

2009 32,853 31,188 1,665.2

2010 39,820 38,351 1,468.9

2011 56,954 51,998 4,955.52012* 25,646 22,619 3,027.2

BALANZA COMERCIAL DE COLOMBIA



Free Trade Agreement between

Colombia and the U.SApproved on October 10,2011 by the Congress of the

United States and in force

since May 15, 2012. It has

different purposes in a way

favorable to both countries.

• Maintain current employment in the sector and generatenew jobs.

• The contribution of a few percentage points to economic

growth.

• The increased volume of international trade of the country,both exports and imports

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