International primary commodity marketing and Latin America

A major concern ro the developing countries in the commodity area has been their insufficient participation in the marketing of export commodities and the resulting low share of the final consumer pricesretained by them. In the light of the general assessment that international trade is conducted in a tightly controlled market environment, especially by transnational corporations, the paper attempts to bring to light some major features of commodity marketing, by examining the intra-firm trade in the said sector, with special reference to Latin America.