Weekly Report - 10 October 2013 (WR-13-40)

COLOMBIA | Fulfilling rural sector demands. The Colombian government announced last week that it would be restricting imports of nine agricultural products in order to fulfil the agreements reached with the local agricultural sector that brought an end to the national strikes staged by the sector throughout July and August. The announcement was made by the outgoing trade minister, Sergio Díaz-Granados, following a ministerial meeting at the Casa de Nariño presidential palace, also attended by Agriculture Minister Rubén Darío Lizarralde, Interior Minister Aurelio Iragorri and social prosperity department director, Bruce Mac Master.