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Bilateral institutional relations between the EU and Latin America are increasing, while at the same time there has been a great development of multilateral negotiations with both areas as directly interested parties. The paper analyses the reasons for failure al Seattle of the Ministeral Conference of the WTO.

In the WTO, developing countries have been divided into two groups: developing countries per se (DC) and less-advanced developing countries (LADC). The paper studies the socio-economic characteristics of the LADC, as well as the reforms that they have introduced in recent years; the specific contribution of foreign trade to the development of these countries is further analysed.

The paper focuses on the evolution of the economic structure in UE countries during 1985-1996 period, analysing the composition of the their productive structures an their trade relations. We show that convergence on those variable had been partial, existing important differences among some countries, especially when the sectorial composition is observed. As consequence, the risk of a asymmetric shock has not clearly decreased in that period.