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Banana Time, a space to discuss the future of the banana industry and demand a better deal in Europe and the United States

The need to sign trade agreements with Asian countries, the impacts of input costs and shipping freight, the future of bananas in the face of Fusarium race 4 and shared responsibility in the ‘From farm to table’ strategy of the European Union are some of the topics...
Posted On 27 Oct 2021
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Exporters do not want to argue with producers and hope that the price of $ 6.25 for bananas will be formalized to start with the signing of contracts

The banana export sector hopes as soon as possible for the price of the banana box to be made official by 2022 and assures that it does not want to enter into controversies with the producers of the fruit, who insist that they were deceived into signing an agreement so that the...
Posted On 26 Oct 2021
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An Amazonian brand seeks to reactivate tourism

More promotion to move the tourist sector of the Ecuadorian East. The Consortium of Amazonian and Galapagos Municipalities (Comaga)  presented a plan to reactivate the sector. The proposal is called the Tourism Project to generate a Regional Governance Model.  One of the central...
Posted On 25 Oct 2021
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Banana producers say they were tricked into signing an agreement and ask to meet with Guillermo Lasso to define the price of a box of bananas for 2022

Representatives of the banana producing sector unionized in the National Federation of Banana Producers of Ecuador (Fenabe) denied this Monday that they had reached an agreement to maintain the minimum support price of the banana box at $ 6.25, officially announced days ago by...
Posted On 25 Oct 2021
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Isspol: US court asks to retain assets of Chérrez and Luzuriaga valued at $ 176 million

The Southern District Court of Florida (United States) reformulated charges against Jorge Chérrez Miño and Jorge John Luzuriaga, for an alleged participation in a bribery and money laundering scheme that involves the pension fund of the Social Security Institute of the Police...
Posted On 22 Oct 2021
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Banana producers ask, with a pacific strike, that the price of the box rises to $ 7.50

Banana producers arrived on the morning of this Friday the 22nd to the lowlands of the Zonal Government, in Guayaquil, to carry out a peaceful sit-in and demand that the price of the box of bananas that will govern by 2022 rises to $ 7.50, $ 1.25 more than the minimum price of...
Posted On 22 Oct 2021
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Fuel prices: Guillermo Lasso orders the freezing of values

Price freeze. The system of bands that allows the monthly increase in fuel is no more, as indicated by the president of Ecuador, Guillermo Lasso a few minutes ago in the Guayas governorate. The price of extra gasoline is $ 2.55 cents a gallon, while diesel for public...
Posted On 22 Oct 2021
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Ambassador Baki: United States Senate approved extension of tariff preferences for Ecuador

The Ambassador of Ecuador to the United States, Ivonne Baki, assured this October 20, 2021 that the Senate approved the extension of the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) so that certain Ecuadorian products can enter that market without tariffs.  In a radio interview, Baki...
Posted On 21 Oct 2021
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More than 30 experts will present the situation of the global shrimp market at the Aquaexpo Guayaquil 2021

With the participation of around 150 national and foreign companies, the Aquaexpo Guayaquil 2021 starts this Monday, October 25, at the Convention Center, in a commercial context that places the crustacean as the main Ecuadorian non-oil export product with $ 3,175 million in...
Posted On 21 Oct 2021
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Peru seeks to attract Ecuadorian investments to its tourism sector

Peru seeks to attract Ecuadorian travelers with its tourist offer, but above all local businessmen to invest in the different destinations of the southern country. In 2019, Peru registered more than 4.4 million international tourist arrivals, of which 268,179 came from Ecuador,...
Posted On 21 Oct 2021
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