Implicancia en sector camaronero con acuerdo comercial Ecuador - Unión Europea.

Abstract

Ecuador has been characterized as an exporter of shrimp, since the end of the 60s when the pampas started to explode in Salinas and Salitre, making this economic activity profitable. In the 1980s, shrimp exports had increased by 600 %, placing Ecuador among the world's leading exporters. In the late nineties the export of shrimp began to suffer a crisis due to a virus called the white spot, is the 250 million pounds that are exported, the production decreased to 80 million pounds causing great loss. In 2006, the national production of shrimp recovered its volume, and so on until 2012 when Ecuador exported 450 million pounds, generating foreign currency for 276.9 million dollars; being this the second item in non-oil exports of the country. It is important to mention that in the month of October 2007 Ecuador exported 88 million pounds of carbón to 50 countries representing a sale of $ 269 million dollars, the second highest figure in the equational history.