Category: Latin America
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Latin America Today: Growth Without Momentum, Stability Without Comfort
Latin America enters 2025 carrying a familiar but increasingly fragile economic pattern: modest growth, improving inflation, and unresolved structural vulnerabilities. The region is no longer in crisis mode, yet it is far from a durable recovery. What defines the current moment is not collapse, but constraint—external, fiscal, political, and institutional.…
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A New Phase in Brazil’s Trade Strategy
The recent imposition of 50% U.S. tariffs on key imports marks a turning point in Brazil’s global economic alignment. Historically tied to both the U.S. and China as a supplier of commodities, Brazil is now reconfiguring its trade priorities. This reorientation is not sudden but a deepening of trends already…
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India–Peru FTA: A Strategic Boost for Tamil Nadu’s Industrial Sector
As India and Peru move closer to finalizing a Free Trade Agreement (FTA), attention is turning to how this partnership could reshape opportunities for Indian industry. The FTA, expected to cut tariffs and open markets in mining, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and technology, holds particular promise for Tamil Nadu, one of India’s…
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How the New U.S. Tariffs Are Reshaping Latin America’s Economic Future
In a bold and controversial move, the United States under President Donald Trump has unveiled a sweeping tariff proposal targeting Latin American imports, marking a significant departure from the multilateral free-trade approach of past administrations. Effective August 1, 2025, the proposed tariff structure increases baseline rates from 10% to between…
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