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Andean Community - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07) |
 | | The Andean Community is one of South America's two main trade blocs (the other one being Mercosur). |
 | | Mercosur and the Andean Community began negotiations in 1999 towards a merger of the two groupings, with the potential of creating a South American Free Trade Area (SAFTA). |
 | | In August 2003, the Andean Community and Mercosur Foreign Ministers, during a meeting in Montevideo at which the CAN delivered a working proposal containing guidelines for the negotiation, reaffirmed their governments' political determination to move ahead with the negotiation of a free trade agreement between the two blocs. |
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