Análisis de impacto del marco jurídico generado a partir del TLC entre Colombia y Estados Unidos de América sector arroz

Abstract

After times of protectionism, the predominant foreign trade structure in Colombia was the economic opening after 1990s. In this way, the Barco administration announced a commercial liberalization program with a gradualist orientation of openness, which led to the development of schemes such as the ATPDEA, to establish a framework of foreign trade and antidrug policy between the Republic of Colombia and the United States of America. However, these preferential trade strategies between the parties depended on the validity of the negotiations and, above all, on the approval of the administrations on duty. This is how negotiations took place between representatives of the governments of Colombia and the United States, to establish a long-term trade agreement, disconnected from the domestic policy of each country. These negotiations culminate with the publication of Decree 993/2012, which promulgates the entry into force of the Trade Promotion Agreement (TPA), between the Republic of Colombia and the United States of America. However, the treaty generated a serious impact in the agricultural sector and within it, in the national production of rice. The side effects of the signing of the Trade Promotion Agreement are mainly due to differences in factors such as infrastructure, roads, subsidies, production and comparative costs, and its main negative impact has been the risk of loss of food sovereignty. The following article will develop the legal vision of the Trade Agreement between Colombia and the United States and how these legal measures have been insufficient to equate the burdens in the productive sectors of rice between both countries.