Under the current Andean trade act, most Colombian exports come into the U.S. without being taxed.
U. has agreed to negotiate with individual countries, rather than with the Andean Community as a bloc.
The impoverished Andean nation has thrown out three presidents in the past 10 years.
In 2000-01, Alejandro Toledo, an economist of Andean Indian descent, brushed past more experienced rivals.
What is more, Colombia stands at the strategic heart of a very fragile Andean region.
InVEST is being put to use in the Andean highlands where the glaciers are melting.
Argentina and Brazil have held separate talks both with the Andean countries and with Mexico.
Much commentary has seen in these events a popular revolution by downtrodden Andean Indians.
Sidor, the biggest steel producer in the Caribbean and Andean regions, was privatised in 1997.
Instead of a suit and tie, he wears collarless shirts embroidered with Andean Indian designs.
He grew up in Tachira, a devoutly Catholic Andean state, and was destined for the priesthood.
Same goes for the Andean Cottage in Peru, where everything is about privacy.
But the president, an economist of Andean Indian descent, has made things harder for himself.
The anti-drug warriors may be richer, but they still face a Sisyphean task on the Andean hillsides.
Born in an Andean Indian farming community, he was one of 16 children, of whom seven died.
Balboa's mules crossed the isthmus at Panama in 1513, and Pizarro mounted the Andean spine in 1530.
Climatic changes of the 20th century have altered the water cycle in the Andean basins of central Argentina.
In making decisions about Colombia, it is important to consider the wider political context in the Andean region.
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Last month Colombia began negotiating a U.S.-Andean free-trade agreement that would also bring in Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.
But in the Andean mining towns, some 3, 000-4, 000 metres (10, 000-13, 000 feet) above sea-level, there is not much alternative.
By June it hopes to have agreed on lower tariffs for its manufactured goods in the Andean countries.
Even so, in Alejandro Toledo, an economist of Andean Indian descent, a popular opponent to Mr Fujimori emerged.
It focuses on sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia and the Andean region.
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All the Andean countries have recently suffered recessions, or sharp slowdowns in growth.
Various Central American, Caribbean and Andean countries can already send ethanol to America tariff-free, thanks to concessionary trade agreements.
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In particular, Quigg cited increasing interest by the privatized social security funds in the Andean region of South America.
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More than 12, 000 feet above sea level on the windswept Andean plains, 30, 000 Indians await the arrival of Evo Morales.
Because Peru is a developing Andean country, U.S. law already allows most of its goods to enter the country duty-free.
La Estrella is their luxuriously rustic ranch in the Valle California Reserve, set along the river in the Andean foothills.
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David Handel has commissioned imaginative arrangements of Andean folk music and tried to bring in some of Bolivia's indigenous people.
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