Ecuador: Shrimp, banana and tuna ask for respect for conditions with Mexico

The Government assures that the technical negotiation of the trade agreement with Mexico has ended, after almost four years, and now only a political definition is missing. That after, three weeks ago, the president of Mexico, Andrés López Obrador, said that there were disagreements about the access of tuna, bananas and shrimp. They are three star products from Ecuador. But President Guillermo Lasso assured that "it was resolved (the tuna) and the banana", on October 12. Regarding these advances, the Ministry of Production added that Ecuadorian tuna “already has negotiated access, that issue has already been resolved. The only thing left pending is the definition of the rule of origin on the technical level”. In the case of bananas from Ecuador, the State Portfolio explained that "there would be a political understanding that should be transferred to the technical table." Now the big pending "knot" is shrimp, Ecuador's main non-oil export product. To untie it, Lasso says that he ...