The Guatemala–Honduras customs union and Central American integration
- Trade agreements and market access
- Agreements and preferences in force
- not audited
Guatemala ratified the framework for the customs union with Honduras in 2016 and implementation began in 2017; El Salvador opened accession negotiations that same year. SIECA runs the 'Deep Integration: El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras' platform and the Economic Intelligence Observatory with regional statistics. The general legal framework — the General Treaty on Central American Economic Integration, the Guatemala Protocol and others — is published by MINECO. The operational detail (the exact start date, reported in the press as 26 June 2017; the FYDUCA as a single tax document; the share of bilateral trade covered; the integrated peripheral customs posts; El Salvador's formal progress) was not verified with a primary source, so no figures are recorded.
The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.
Figures
- Guatemalan ratification of the GT–HN customs union framework
- 2016
- Start of implementation
- 2017
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Sources
Related records
- Guatemala's WTO membership and tariff binding coverage
- CAFTA-DR's entry into force and parties for Guatemala
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- Timeline of the EU–Central America Association Agreement
- Entry into force of the Central America–Mexico FTA for Guatemala
- Tariff elimination and quotas under the Mexico FTA
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