LatinNews Regional Monitor: Caribbean & Central America - 14 October 2019

* Panama’s 71-member unicameral national legislature has ratified a free trade agreement (FTA) with Israel which includes immediate preferential treatment for many of Panama’s agricultural and agro-industrial products. These include vinegar; coffee; palm oil (both crude and refined); frozen beef; hamburger meat; and beer, among other things. Both countries have, however, maintained tariffs for a 15-year period on some sensitive products from the agricultural, fishing, and industrial sectors with some excluded from the deal altogether.

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