Puerto Rico's overall manufacturing sector reported $76.6 billion in total value of shipments for 2012, down 4.5 percent from $80.2 billion in 2007, according to the U.S. Census Bureau's Economic Census of Island Areas.
Colombia and Puerto Rico recently tightened trade relations in the groups and conventions segment, with a presentation by Meet Puerto Rico to more than 80 travel and tourism business professionals from Colombia, said Milton Segarra, president of the agency also known as the Puerto Rico Convention Bureau.
The Puerto Rico chapter of the Association of Latino Professionals for America, known as ALPFA, recently hosted its second annual Excel workshop program during which a group of undergraduate students from different universities had the opportunity to learn the software program.
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