1.   As international attention has increased police pressure on smuggling networks in those three Andean nations, traffickers have increasingly turned to Brazil as a shipping route.

2.   Bush signed the Andean Trade Preference Act which, among other things, allowed cut flowers from Colombia and three other Andean nations to enter the United States duty-free.

3.   Daschle agrees with the president on renewing trade breaks for the Andean nations of Bolivia, Ecuador, Colombia and Peru.

4.   Finally, Chilean ADRs declined as a steep increase in domestic interest rates threatened to slow economic in the Andean nation.

5.   Five years ago, for example, the Andean nations jettisoned decades of protectionism and adopted a regional open-skies policy.

6.   The Andean nations have always been troubled, and lag behind the Southern Cone of South America in developing efficient state institutions.

7.   The bill includes a provision to eliminate steep import taxes on canned tuna from Andean nations while keeping taxes in place for other countries like the Philippines.

8.   The bill includes a provision to eliminate steep import taxes on canned tuna from Andean nations while keeping taxes in place for other countries, like the Philippines.

9.   The four Andean nations would like the pact to be expanded to other goods.

10.   The idea is that the bill will help create well-paying jobs in Andean nations as an alternative to the drug trade.