ACTIVIDAD DE APRENDIZAJE 11

Evidencia 3: Ensayo “Free Trade Agreement (FTA): advantages and

disadvantages”

Luis Fernando Moncada Pérez, María Cristina Restrepo Villarreal

Servicio Nacional de Aprendizaje SENA

2175859: Negociación Internacional

Diciembre 2021
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Evidencia 3: Ensayo “Free Trade Agreement (FTA): advantages and

disadvantages”

Es de suma importancia en este proceso de aprendizaje, conocer muy bien los

tratados de libre de comercio que se tienen en un país, antes de iniciar cualquier
operación de importación y/o exportación. Para desarrollar esta evidencia es
importante que lea y analice previamente el material de formación denominado
The sentence, además del siguiente material complementario:

 English sentence structure and entity-relationship diagrams.

 Sentence structure
 .
Posterior a estas lecturas, elabore un ensayo en inglés de mínimo tres cuartos
(3/4) de página, que dé respuesta a lo siguiente:

Escriba las ventajas y desventajas del tratado de libre comercio entre Colombia
y Estados Unidos.
Advantages and disadvantages of the free trade agreement between
Colombia and the United States.

For Colombia, the free trade agreement with the United States is one of the most
ambitious challenges because it is a world power, which will allow to open
international markets with other great powers, generating credibility and a
favorable image for the country. Despite the fact that the FTA should be a benefit
for the member countries, in the case of the United States, having signed a treaty
with Colombia is not relevant because it has many agreements with great global
impact. The advantages of signing this agreement are that for Colombian
companies there is the possibility of exporting their products to the north of the
American continent, thus benefiting the agricultural sector mainly, the industrial
sector, services and SMEs; on the other hand, by having the tariff benefits, all
kinds of merchandise will enter the country at very low cost, thus harming the trade
sector.

Among the disadvantages, it can also be considered that many products will enter
the country, trying to replace the one already manufactured, thus generating loss
and tax-type disturbances by not harboring those taxes for imports, small
companies will not have the ability to compete internationally, causing that are
stagnant and limiting themselves to the manufacture of products only for the few
local clients that may remain, the productive sector will also be harmed by not
receiving the expected support for both the cultivation and harvesting of their
products, thus achieving economic losses due to the he does not buy from his farm

Signing a Free Trade Agreement with a country that has more training, more
technology, It is very easy to find disadvantages with respect to the agreement,
since Colombia is a country that despite of having what it takes to excel in many
fields, he still lacks to be able to compete and comply with the rules of the treaty.
Even if the advantages are for certain economic groups, there are disappointment
and that is why there are certain disadvantages, among them we have small and
medium-sized companies that when facing a larger market, where a high quality of
the products is required products, with certain sanitary and phytosanitary standards
for the productive development and Exporting products is very difficult for them to
adapt, which will make it difficult for them to compete with a more complete market
and that has taken years in its improvement processes and are specialized,
therefore, this could cause many of these small and medium-sized companies do
not compete in the export part of products or services, or likewise This can cause
that as these companies have high production costs they do not reach to compete
with American companies in the national and international market because these
When companies arrive in Colombia, as well as Colombian companies, the tax
deduction for tariffs and these will come at less bid costs and may decline in the
offer of Colombian products.