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245 _aALLIANCE for trade : Latin America's new commercial opportunities.
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520 _aNotes that two years ago the hemisphere's leaders met in Miami and pledged to start creating a regional free trade area by the year 2005. Mexico's peso crash and US politics have slowed the hoped-for entry of Chile into NAFTA, considered a first step toward regional integration. Business leaders hope that the third annual meeting of the hemisphere's trade ministers, hosted by Brazil in mid-May, will provide some needed momentum.
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