On 29 November 2013, the European Commission announced that as of 1 December, EU’s trade deal with Guatemala became operational. Guatemala is the last Latin American country to benefit from the EU-Central America agreement as the deal is already implemented with the other five countries (Costa Rica, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras and Panama).
On August 27, 2013, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs published in the Diario Oficial de la Federación (Federal Official Gazette) an Acuerdo announcing that Mexico and Guatemala had agreed that the Free Trade Agreement Between the United Mexican States and the Republics of Costa Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua would enter into force between Mexico and Guatemala on September 1, 2013. Several related documents were published by the Ministry of the Economy at…