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Foreign Trade
Ministry of Foreign Trade
ANGELA MARIA OROZCOMinister
Cartagena de Indias, February 15th, 2002
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Agenda

• Ten years long term policy
• Export Promotion Policy
• Colombian Exports Performance
• Challenges

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- Strategic Exports Program- Productivity and
Competitiveness Policy
Ten years long term policy
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Strategic Exports Program
2. To attract foreing investment to directly
promote exports
1. To incrase and diversify the exportable offer
of goods and services as fuction of world demand
and local supply
5. To develop a solid export culture
3. To incraase productivity so the export
activity becomes more competitive
4. To regionalize exportable supplies
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Productivity and competitiveness policy 1999-2009
1. Strengthen Value Added Industrial Sectors 2.
National encounters of Productivity and
Competitiveness (6 meetings) 2. Colombia
Competes Network 3. Export Competitiveness
Agreements (30 agreements) 4. Identification of
Regional Competitive Advantages 5. National
Productivity Center 6. EXPOPYME (Microindustry
Exports Promotion) 7. Quality Guarantee
Program 8. International Business Scholarship 9.
Young Exporters (Innovative Exports Promotion)
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Global competitiveness index Colombia relative
position

of upper countries
Fuente Foro Económico Mundial 1994-2001
Source WEF
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Export Promotion Policy

• Information and Basic Training
• Basic Suppport Services and Logistics
• Trade advisory, follow up and financial support

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Information and Basic Training
INTELEXPORT Market Intelligence System
Source Proexport
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Basic Suppport Services and Logistics
Quality Assurance Program ( ISO9000)
Companies served by de program
Source Proexport
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Trade advisory, follow up and financial support
Expopyme Program
Source Proexport
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Market Diversification
Source Proexport
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Export Promotion Policy 2000( Top score is 7)
Colombia is the leader of Export Promotion in the
region
Source WEF
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Colombian Exports Performance
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Colombian Exports (annual growth)
Source DANE
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Industrial Exports 2001(annual growth)
Source DANE
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Industrial Exports 2001(annual growth)
Source DANE
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Policy Impact Export Competitiveness Agreements
Annual Growth of Exports
(US5,673 mill)
(US6,499 mill)
Source DANE
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Policy Impact Share of Non Traditional Exports
US4,819 mill
US6,499 mill
Source DANE
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Challenges Recover exchange rate competitiveness
Change of bilateral real exchange rate index
during the last year (dec-00 / jan-02)
Source Central Bank
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Challenges

• Diversification
• Value Added Exports
• Markets
• Europe Strategic Exports Plan
• Asia Strategic Exports Plan
• ATPA
• Negociations Team
• ALCA
• OMC
• Andean Comunity

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Foreign Trade
Ministry of Foreign Trade
Marta Lucía RamírezMinister
Cartagena de Indias, February 15th, 2002