How non-traditional are non-traditional exports? The experience of seven countries of the Caribbean Basin

In the six Central American countries -C osta Rica, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua, which make up the Central American Common Market, and Panam a- non-traditional exports increased in the 1970s, went down between 1980 and 1986 because o f macroeconomic imbalances, armed conflicts and the crisis in the Central American Comm on Market, but grew once again in the second half o f the 1980s and the early 1990s.