Análisis de la incidencia del Acuerdo Multipartes Ecuador-Unión Europea en las exportaciones de atún en el periodo 2010 – 2020.

Abstract

The main objective of this work was to determine whether the multiparty commercial agreement signed between Ecuador and the EU in 2017 caused a positive or negative variation on tuna exports from 2010-2020. The trade history between Ecuador and the European Union up to the signing of the agreement was reviewed. In addition, tuna exports before and after the agreement with the EU were analyzed, with a sample of 37 countries with quarterly data, the gravity model was used by using panel data methods, which were tested in various scenarios to obtain accurate and true estimates. The results obtained detailed the importance of economic, commercial and geographical factors in trade flows such as Ecuador's GDP and other independent variables such as tuna production, fisheries sector production, distance and treaties.