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This figure represents a 5.4% increase compared to the $5.5 billion USD in revenues in 2016.

The agreements focus on erasing regulations and “tramites” that slow down time to market across borders.

Lacouture served as commerce minister for the Santos administration from May 2016 until last month.

Exports from Colombia to South Korea totaled $182 million USD from last July through May 2017 compared to $137 million USD the prior year.

"Travelers arriving to Mompox have the possibility to live a unique experience," said María Claudia Lacouture, Colombia's minister of commerce.

The 2016 total was more than half a billion dollars above the $5.2 billion USD reported in 2015 and puts the industry second in terms of foreign revenue generation after the oil sector.

Gran Colombia's massive lawsuit alleges that the local government failed to evict illegal miners from their sites of operations in Marmato and Segovia.