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conformación de bloques comerciales

English translation: creation of trade blocs


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Spanish term or phrase:conformación de bloques comerciales
English translation:creation of trade blocs
Entered by: Barbara Cochran
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16:48 Aug 22, 2011
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Social Sciences - International Org/Dev/Coop / Environmental Management
Spanish term or phrase: conformación de bloques comerciales
Not sure if the literal "commercial blocks" would be OK in this instance. Can't find it on the Internet in English, not in this context, anyway.

Contexto:

"El geranciamiento ambiental forma parte del conjunto de mecanismos institucionales e instrumentos que toma en cuenta los efectos de las actividades del desarrollo (las actuales tendencias de los mercados, la globalización, los tratados de libre comercio y la **conformación de los bloques comerciales**) para el manjejo sistémico, armónico e integral del medio ambiente y los recursos naturales."

Muchas Gracias,

Barbara
Barbara Cochran
Local time: 22:36
creation of trade blocs
Explanation:
This is what it means, though I think "blocs" can have slightly negative connotations, so you might prefer something like "trading partnerships between countries".
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philgoddard
Local time: 21:36
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Gracias.
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4 +6creation of trade blocsphilgoddard
5the composition (make-up) of trade (economic) blocs
Deborah Lockett


  

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4 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +6
creation of trade blocs


Explanation:
This is what it means, though I think "blocs" can have slightly negative connotations, so you might prefer something like "trading partnerships between countries".

philgoddard
Local time: 21:36
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 8
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Gracias.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  ClaraVal
1 min

agree  Jenni Lukac
2 mins

agree  patinba
24 mins

agree  xxxFVS: Good one.
38 mins

agree  James A. Walsh: I think "blocs" is fine here.
1 hr

agree  Pablo Julián Davis: perfecto, 'blocs' excelente; lo único que yo sugeriría es 'formation' o 'rise' en vez de 'creation', ya que no se trata tanto de una creación desde arriba sino más bien algo que surge y se organiza entre varios países... (o al menos así lo veo yo)
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14 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5
the composition (make-up) of trade (economic) blocs


Explanation:
"conformación" means "shape" -- see here http://www.spanishdict.com/translate/conformación -- in this case it means who has trading agreements with who, which countries make up each trade bloc.

"Conformar" means "to make up", "to comprise". The blocks already exist, and it is simply a matter of who makes them up.

Here is the Wikipedia entry for Trade Bloc:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trade_bloc

Deborah Lockett
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Aug 31, 2011 - Changes made by Barbara Cochran:
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