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President Rafael Correa arrived this Saturday at 20:30 to the country after his tour through Qatar and Switzerland. The President’s Office said via Twitter (Presidencia_Ec) that Correa announced the signing of three bilateral agreements. “For the first time there are...

The state signed agreements with 905 private companies that are committed to generate more local quality standards. With this, the national industry accelerates its production by injecting capital. Some of the companies supporting the productive matrix are Scalpi, Tecnova and...

Creating the Convention Bureau is an enterprise engaged by the Conventions Center Simon Bolivar, hoteliers and tour operators for over a decade. The project aims to convert the Pacific Pearl in a venue for conferences, meetings, conventions and exhibitions. On October 8, Mayor...

The pilot plan for electronic money, that the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym) announced it would begin today, was postponed for a few days. Last Friday, the ECB reported that tests on macroagents (shops and financial institutions where transactions can be...

Four exporting Ecuadorian entrepreneurs spoke to CNN about the strengths and challenges they face in the country. The appreciation of the dollar, the payment of profits, international competition, among others, were the topics discussed at a round table under the leadership of...

The Autonomous Decentralized Governments Commission presented on Wednesday, 22 October a proposal for that private telephone companies pay new royalties to the state . This would be included in the Draft Organic Law of Telecommunications. The article proposes that telephone...

Cosmetics purchases to the exterior fell at 35% until the first semester of 2014, a 10% more than what was projected following the signing of an agreement between the Government and Procosméticos (Yanbal, Avon, Koala and of the Belcorp), to lower the imports in last January.  The...

In February, March, April, June and August of 2014, the shrimp has displaced the banana sales abroad and has disputed the first place as the first non-oil export product of the country, as indicated by data from the Central Bank of Ecuador (BCE for its Spanish acronym) . José...

“We have contributed positively to the balance of payments with $ 1,760 million in September.” This is the result of the agreements reached by the regime with the private sector after the implementation of Resolution 116, according to the Minister of Industry, Ramiro...

Kinross Gold Corporation reported on October 21 that it has signed an agreement with Fortress Minerals Corp, a member of the Lundin Group of Companies, to sell its entire stake in Aurelian Resources Inc. and the Fruta del Norte (FDN) project in Ecuador for $ 240 million....