Trade

Key Facts

—The deal. Ecuador and the United States have concluded a reciprocal-trade framework, the first bilateral market-access agreement in the two countries’ history.

—The benefit. It removes a 15 percent surcharge on roughly half of Ecuador’s non-oil exports, a basket worth about $3.2bn.

—The goods. The covered products include flowers, blueberries, avocados, bananas, cacao, tuna and some minerals.