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2013 Latin American Cities Conferences San Jose – Costa Rica: Five Years after CAFTA-DR

The November 11 AS/COA conference will analyze the impact of CAFTA-DR on Costa Rica's foreign investment, business development, and competitiveness since the trade accord’s implementation.

New York, November 5, 2013—Implemented in Costa Rica in January 2009, the Dominican Republic-Central America-United States Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA-DR) created the third-largest export market for the United States in Latin America, behind only Mexico and Brazil. It is the fifteenth-largest U.S. export market in the world, having generated trade worth $60.1 billion in 2012.

Join Americas Society/Council of the Americas in partnership with the World Bank and the Ministry of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica (COMEX) at their second San Jose conference “Costa Rica: Five Years after CAFTA-DR” on Monday, November 11, 2013 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The conference will be webcast live

A group of high-level public officials and private sector leaders will analyze the impact of CAFTA-DR on foreign investment, business development, and the country’s competitiveness. Despite the effects of the international financial crisis, Costa Rica’s GDP has grown an average of 3.2 percent in the last five years since the trade pact’s implementation. The estimate for the country’s economic growth is 3.7 percent for 2014.

Local and international speakers at the conference include Laura Chinchilla, President of Costa Rica; Anabel Gonzalez, Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica; Fernando Ocampo,Vice Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica; Rowland Espinoza, Vice Minister of Telecommunications, Ministry of Science, Technology and Telecommunications of Costa Rica; Alberto Trejos, Ex-Minister of Foreign Trade of Costa Rica; Muni Figueres, Ambassador of Costa Rica to the United States; Felipe Jaramillo, Director for Central America, Latin America & Caribbean Region,World Bank; Jorge Abadía, CEO, Telefónica Costa Rica; Said Breedy, Associate, Insurance Practice, BLP Lawyers; Arturo Condo, President, INCAE Business School; Víctor García, Chief of Regulatory and Wholesale Services, CLARO; Jeff Hornbeck, Associate Director, PATRI Inc.; Alfredo Ramírez, Country Manager for Pan-American Life Insurance Costa Rica; Julio Lizano, President and Operations Director, Vitec Videocom Ltda; Ragnhild Melzi, Senior Director, Public Policy Programs and Corporate Relations, AS/COA; Jaime Molina, President, Costa Rican Union of Chambers and Associations of the Private Sector (UCCAEP); Ricardo Monge, Technical Secretary, Presidential Council for Competitiveness and Innovation of Costa Rica; Ronald Jiménez, Vice President, Chamber of Information and Communication Technology (CAMTIC); Christopher Padilla, Vice President, Government Programs, IBM Corporation; and Tomás Soley, Superintendent, General Superintendence of Insurance of Costa Rica.


Visit www.as-coa.org/costarica2013 for the complete agenda, blog, and live webcast of the conference.
The webcast begins Monday, November 11, 2013, 9:00 a.m. local, 11:00 a.m. ET.

Get live updates on Twitter via @ASCOA and #comercioCR
Tune into the live webcast here.


2013 Latin American Cities Conferences – San Jose
Costa Rica: Five Years after CAFTA-DR

Monday, November 11, 2013
Registration: 8:30 a.m. to 9:00 a.m.
Presentation: 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.

Real InterContinental Hotel Costa Rica
San Jose 1856-1000
San Jose, Costa Rica
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Press Inquiries: Please contact Adriana La Rotta at alarotta@as-coa.org or 1-212-277-8384.
 

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