Efectos del Covid-19 en el comercio exterior no petrolero de Ecuador durante el primer trimestre del 2020.

Abstract

This research work allows us to know the effects of Covid-19 in Ecuador's non oil foreign trade during the first quarter of 2020, with the aim of acquiring information that allows us to conceive the effects that this new health pandemic has on foreign trade. The socio-critical paradigmatic position supported by the descriptive deductive method was applied as a methodological design. In this way, the following conclusion is obtained, in the countries of Latin America and the Caribbean they are in a situation of high fragility due to their great dependence on exports, which is why organizations such as CEPAL have indicated that economic activity of the region will decrease by nearly 15% thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic, resulting, among other factors, in the fall in the prices of raw materials and the reduction in international trade. On the other hand, in Ecuador, although in the first quarter there was not such a pronounced affectation, the same cannot be said of the second quarter, since the true effects of the pandemic are being visualized as of April, where the productive sector was paralyzed, recording large losses, due to the collapse of sales as well as the purchase orders of various businesses.