Ecuador: We have not received a satisfactory proposal from Mexico, says Julio José Prado

It still won't unlock. The Minister of Production, Foreign Trade and Investment, Julio José Prado, assured this December 8, 2022 that there is still no satisfactory response from Mexico to the approaches that Ecuador has made to seal the trade agreement. "We have not yet received, despite the constant exchanges and the last one we did two weeks ago with President Lasso and Foreign Minister Juan Carlos Holguín, we have not yet received a satisfactory proposal from Mexico. What do I mean satisfactory? I mean because we still do not have a proposal that allows us to say that bananas and shrimp are within that agreement with the levels of quotas, of export income that we believe are the minimum necessary to be able to enter that market," said Prado, in interview with Radio Democracy. Bananas and shrimp are the star products of Ecuador in which there is disagreement to sign the trade agreement. The producers and the government of that country have mentioned their concern about the ...