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This paper analyzes the behavior of national and international markets for Colombian orange, in key areas such as production, prices, imports and exports during 2010-2015. Multiple databases and data collection of applicable reports of the citrus chain were used; obtained from primary and secondary sources (government agencies at national and international level); then foreign trade reports were generated by the tariff position 08.05.10.00.00 established in Decree 4589 (2006) from Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism of Colombia. World production stood at 47.90 million tons by 2015, with a reference price of 0.80 USD/Kg internationally, in this regard Colombia is considered a marginal player in world production whose national price reaches 0.35 USD/kg and where exports are evolving positively towards Ecuador and some Caribbean islands; however phytosanitary barriers will hinder foreign trade. The Country presents advances in the production and marketing of this fruit, however there is work to be done to be a player who begins to appear on the international stage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper takes as inputs for its analysis the trade flows between Colombia and a selected group of the East Asian countries, the export-import trade for each country, the intra-industry trade taking place in those countries and the Colombian national competitiveness situation. From that infor-mation it is inferred that Colombia is still following the Dependency path which means that trade with the most developed Asian countries may fall in the circumscription of exporting primary sector products. Only if Co-lombia seeks to enter in the intra-industry trade sectors in the Asian mar-kets with competitive products, will be able to diversify its export basket and break the pattern imposed by dependency. Therefore, the priorities for Colombia are mainly achieving high national competitiveness and produ-cing competitive products, but right now competitiveness is still weak and this demands upgrading its competitive factors. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]