Mapping the EU-LAC Trade Diplomacy through Crises

Eleonora Poli (), Andre Wolf () and Emily Bertollini ()
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Eleonora Poli: Centre for European Policy Network–CEP
Andre Wolf: Centre for European Policy Network
Emily Bertollini: LUISS University

Chapter Chapter 6 in Rethinking Trade in an Age of Turbulence, 2026, pp 99-109 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Trade relations between the European Union (EU) and the 33 countries of Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) region are based on the coexistence of partnerships with regional and interregional organizations, as well as individual countries (see Annex 6.1) (Luciano, 2022). The EU and LAC strategic partnership began with a bi-regional Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1999. Since then, the EU has little by little become the third largest trading partner of LAC countries, after the US and China, while the LAC countries are currently the EU fifth largest trading partner (European Parliament, 2024). Although China has managed to become the LAC countries’ second largest trading partner, over the last 20 years the EU still represents a reliable counterpart, playing a strategic role within the LAC countries’ plans for trade diversification (Raza & Grohs, 2022). To date, European trade agreements with the LAC region cover 27 of the 33 LAC member countries (EPRS, 2018).

Date: 2026
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-28664-2_6

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