Cordex was incorporated on August 11 and presented on November 17. Fedexpor celebrates 45 years since it was created in 1976.
The official launch of the Ecuador Export Guilds Corporation (Cordex), which happened on November 17, in Guayaquil, was an event of which Felipe Ribadeneira, president of the Ecuadorian Federation of Exporters (Fedexpor), found out from the press.
Cordex, which was established on August 11, joined the representation of the export sector, a task that Fedexpor has already carried out for 45 years, since it was created in 1976. Cordex executives, many of them also part of Fedexpor, They assured that they do not compete but complement objectives such as promoting the signing of new trade agreements, promoting exports and improving competitiveness.
Cordex, a new union of exporters, will focus on promoting the signing of trade agreements and improving competitiveness
Ribadeneira agrees with that vision. “Any initiative that is linked to promoting foreign trade, welcome it, as long as there is union and will to remove Ecuador, which it so badly needs; Increasing its exports, which it so badly needs, opening the trade agenda, is important ”, said the president of Fedexpor, who, however, clarified that this union“ continues to be the only union at the national level that cares about all exports from Ecuador. ”.
Meanwhile, Cordex, which brings together several unions, is made up of the Ecuadorian Banana Exporters Association (AEBE), the Banana Marketing and Export Association (Acorbanec), the Ecuadorian National Cocoa Exporters Association (Anecacao), the Association of Banana Exporters (Asoexpla), the National Chamber of Fisheries (CNP) and the National Chamber of Aquaculture (CNA).
Ribadeneira acknowledged that there are specific and regional sectors, agricultural, industrial and agroindustrial that have their different realities, but he assured that the important thing is to find the mechanism to strengthen, to move the country forward.
“We have a very aggressive trade agenda that this government has proposed and what we need is to look for those mechanisms, to try to crystallize the trade agenda, to close trade agreements with the United States, with China, with Russia, Canada, Central America; there is still a job and a somewhat ambitious agenda ”, warned the leader, who regretted that Ecuador is behind other countries in the region in this matter.
For this he cited that only $ 4 out of every $ 10 that Ecuador exports abroad are protected with trade agreements, unlike Colombia, Peru, Chile, which have $ 9 out of every $ 10 that they export protected. For this, Ribadeneira insisted that union mechanisms should be sought and think not only in one sector but also in seeing how to achieve a balance to have successful results such as the European Union, according to the leader, who took the sectors involved a joint work of ten years until its crystallization.
Cordex does not come to compete with Fedexpor and other unions, but to complement representation, they assure from the new corporation
Another joint result, added the president of Fedexpor, was the entry of Ecuador into the ATPDA (Law of Andean Tariff Preferences) 40 years ago; achievement achieved by Agustín Jiménez, Guayaquil former president of the union, who was honored during the PremioXport gala on the night of November 25.
“He not only thought about the development of his sector, but also incorporated other products such as flowers, broccoli and changed the structure of the Ecuadorian Sierra forever, now we have an economy that generates more than $ 1,000 million annually and generates more than 30,000 direct jobs and logically also developed the sector in which it was, “said Ribadeneira.
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