These are the export markets in which Guatemala is entering

By Natiana Gándara / Prensa Libre Nine new export markets have been detected by the Ministry of Economy (Mineco) from January to July of this year, especially in Asia and Africa. For example, products such as sugar and cardamom are being shipped to Libya and the Ivory Coast. In the case of Afghanistan, Egypt and Russia, coffee is being shipped, as is Georgia; iron and steel to Switzerland and Finland, aluminum to Thailand and wood manufactures to the United Kingdom, reported yesterday Edith Flores de Molina, Deputy Minister of Integration and Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Economy, during the presentation of the management report of said entity. In the opinion of Jacobo Pieters, head of the market intelligence unit of the Guatemalan Association of Exporters (Agexport) those markets make sense at the international level, but he explained that with products such as iron, cardamom and sugar it is because the market fluctuates year-on-year, therefore, where there is demand, these ...