Análisis del impacto del acuerdo comercial con el EFTA sobre las exportaciones ecuatorianas de enlatado de atún.

Abstract

The EFTA bloc agreed to form a trade agreement in 2018 with the aim of obtaining bilateral benefits, from that year exports in the sector began to show slight changes, as time passed Ecuador received external sanctions that caused limitations in their income. These sanctions are due to the activities of the sector that are currently considered unethical; therefore, the main objective of the project is to verify if this agreement generates an impact that means a development in the tuna sector. The project carried out a survey that was distributed to 30 Ecuadorian tuna companies, 40 percent of these surveys indicate that the trade agreement that Ecuador has with the EFTA bloc is important for fisheries development. To reinforce this result, a statistical model of time series was carried out with data obtained from the central bank showing that exports to the European sector forecast a significant increase, so it is concluded that the EFTA trade agreement promotes the development of companies involved in the canned tuna sector.