{"id":122247,"date":"2021-05-11T09:30:46","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T01:30:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122247"},"modified":"2021-05-11T09:30:49","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T01:30:49","slug":"peru-nicaragua-begin-free-trade-agreement-negotiations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=122247","title":{"rendered":"Peru, Nicaragua begin free trade agreement negotiations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>LIMA, May 11 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Peru and Nicaragua began the first round of negotiations to form a free trade agreement (FTA), Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Claudia Cornejo announced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We are sure that this new agreement will allow us to boost export activity, which is so necessary for the economic reactivation of our country,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Cornejo, market access, rules of origin, health measures, services, movement of people, e-commerce, investments and cooperation will be addressed during the first round from May 10 to 18.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The negotiations are being carried out virtually between representatives of the two countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The FTA, which will take several rounds, aims to boost trade and cooperation, which is currently at very low levels, according to the minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During 2020, trade between Peru and Nicaragua barely reached 32 million U.S. dollars, the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism said.\u00a0&#8212; NNN-XINHUA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIMA, May 11 (NNN-Xinhua) &#8212; Peru and Nicaragua began the first round of negotiations to form a free trade agreement (FTA), Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Claudia Cornejo announced. &#8220;We are sure that this new agreement will allow us to boost export activity, which is so necessary for the economic reactivation of our [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[208],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122247"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=122247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=122247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=122247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=122247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}