Living in Peru : your everyday companion

“Buy from Peru” campaign to be launched today in Apurimac

Andina

Peru’s Production Minister Elena Conterno Martinelli will launch today the national "Buy From Peru" campaign in the city of Abancay (Apurimac) with the aim of encouraging people to support of domestic suppliers and producers by buying Peruvian products.

The ceremony will be held today (Thursday) at 13:15 hours (18:15 GMT) in Abancay’s main square, and will be attended by Apurimac’s governor, David Salazar Morote, as well as local authorities and entrepreneurs.

The “Buy from Peru” campaign has already been launched in the regions of Junin, Tumbes, Ucayali, La Libertad, Ayacucho, Lima, Cajamarca, Lambayeque, San Martin and Arequipa.

Have other topics you'd like to see in our news section? If you or someone you know would like to contribute a news article to Living in Peru, whether it's translated or based on a personal investigation, send it to editor@livinginperu.com.

 | | | |

• Economy : September trade had a surplus of US$ 566 millions
• Business : Microsoft Peru will invest US $500,000 in its expansion
• Travel and Tourism : Prom-Peru to promote Southern Peru tourist destinations in Chilean fair
• Food : US gastronomic website praises Peru's food
• Mining/Energy : Peru: More natural gas found in Camisea

# Rachel in Peru says :
23 April, 2009 [ 20:36 ]

Apurimac is one of the most isolated and impoverished departments of Peru. Most of it is only accessible by vehicle, so where else are they going to buy from? Lima is about as far as China in their eyes.

# Wiracocha says :
23 April, 2009 [ 21:51 ]

Speaking of China, Rachel, I suspect that "buy from Peru" will be important everywhere in Peru, once all the "Free Trade arrangement from China " stuff starts flooding into Peru.It has wrecked many of our manufacturers here in Australia, I can say to you. :-(

# Rachel in Peru says :
24 April, 2009 [ 07:45 ]

An FTA w/China is a deal with the devil. The U.S. does not even have one and our economy has been seriously affected by Chinese products and manufacturing.

Many Peruvians say they hate Chinese products, but they won't spend the extra money to buy Peruvian when the Chinese products are cheaper.

Peruvian labor is cheap, but it cannot beat the cheaper labor of the Chinese.

# Star says :
24 April, 2009 [ 09:37 ]

The Free Trade Agreement will kill Peru. They dont have the financial backbone to deal with the loss of jobs.

# Juan says :
27 April, 2009 [ 06:34 ]

I think they might even find that they are violating some clause of their free trade agreements by encouraging government supported buy Peruvian products only campaigns.  So much for a government supposedly all for free trade and once things start to get a bit bad, they support a protectionist program.  Never a dull moment reading the news from Peru

Name

Email

Notify me via e-mail of new comments to this entry

Code :

Comment

• These comments are the property of their respective authors.
• Currently we only allow english comments.
• Por ahora solo se permiten comentarios en ingles.