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Emerging economies in Asia and Latin America have increased their contributions to world production, finance, and trade in the past decades. In doing so, the two regions have deepened their economic ties with significant implications for the recovery of their respective economies. In this paper we discuss the impact of the crisis on the commercial patterns inside and outside the Forum for East Asia Latin American Cooperation (FEALAC) bloc. We describe the FEALAC economy and identify existing trade and investment structures, and find important structural shortcomings such as a high dependence on inter-industry trade between Asia and Latin America. We argue that this is also an opportunity for greater integration into bi-regional value-added chains and that trade and cooperation between the two regions can be an effective means to counterbalance the adverse effects of the current financial turmoil

En el esquema de internacionalizacion de la economia mundial se advierte un leve proceso de marginacion de America Latina. Por esta razon, la region reconoce cada vez mas la importancia de establecer una zona de libre comercio en el continente americano. Dado el estado relativamente incipiente de la elaboracion de la Iniciativa para las Americas, los paises lainoamericanos deberian ademas explorar modalidades para fortalecer vinculos economicos con cada uno de los centros del comercio mundial. Para tal fin, el articulo examina las relaciones entre America Latina y esos centros y propone algunas lineas de accion

This study makes an appraisal of the impact of technological change on the Latin American commodity sector, especially with regard to the demand. In this context, the process of materials substitution and the relationship between commodity demand and economic development are analysed. The region still has areas not fully exploited with the existing technologies whose potential could be substantially enlarged by changing or improving the prevailing production structure. This proposition is tested in four strategic areas

La importancia vital de los productos basicos para los paises en desarrollo no corresponde en nada a las dificultades de su comercializacion. El autor analiza comparativamente el comercio de manufacturas y productos basicos y destaca el control transnacional como forma mas extendida de la comercializacion mundial de productos basicos de America Latina. Concluye sugeriendo la creacion de entidades regionales que contrarresten los efectos monopolicos de las compradoras multinacionales