FTA Central America - United States

Abstract

Within the framework of the negotiations of the Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), and particularly at the market access tables for agricultural and industrial products, the tariff reduction programs for import tariffs (tariffs) are essentially negotiated. such products, as well as non-tariff barriers.
Import tariffs, possibly the most important instrument of foreign trade policy, have as their main purpose to protect domestic producers from foreign competitors so that they can develop.
But what is the main objective of a trade liberalization, and specifically of a tariff reduction between two or more countries? In general terms, increase exports and promote productive competitiveness, both by the greater supply of inputs in better conditions of price and possibly quality, and by the challenge posed by foreign production.
In principle, the said competitiveness would in turn result in more exports and greater benefits for consumers in the countries involved, since they would have a greater variety of goods with better prices and quality.