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Announcements
October 30, 2026
Halloween: Importación de chocolate y demás preparaciones alimenticias que contengan cacao (HTS1806)

Durante el año 2025, las importaciones de chocolate y demás preparaciones alimenticias que contengan cacao (HTS 1806) en Puerto Rico mostraron una tendencia creciente durante la segunda mitad del año. A partir de julio, cuando se registraron $8.5 millones, el valor de las importaciones aumentó progresivamente, alcanzando $9.2 millones en agosto, $10.5 millones en septiembre y un máximo de $12.5 millones en octubre. Este comportamiento coincide con el periodo previo a las festividades de Halloween, cuando estos productos suelen tener una mayor presencia en el mercado.

Las estadísticas de comercio exterior permiten conocer el comportamiento de los bienes que ingresan a Puerto Rico, identificar tendencias y analizar sus países de origen. Estos datos ayudan a las empresas a planificar sus operaciones, anticipar cambios en el mercado e identificar oportunidades de negocio a partir del comportamiento de las importaciones.

Fuente: Comercio Exterior - Instituto de Estadísticas de Puerto Rico

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Memorials
September 29, 2025
R. of C. 95

Date: September 29, 2025 R. of C. 95: To order the Committee on Federal and Veterans Affairs of the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico to conduct an investigation on any matter concerning relations between the Government of Puerto Rico, the federal government, the governments of other territories and states of the United States of America and their political subdivisions; to intergovernmental agreements and contracts; with the participation of Puerto Rico and the House of Representatives in public and private organizations of a nature intergovernmental; to the study of plans, organization and provision of services ordered by the “Federal Affairs Administration Act”, as well as to all the offices and activities of the instruments of the Government of Puerto Rico that are developed outside of Puerto Rico; to the services and treatment provided by federal agencies that operate on the Island or that have jurisdiction over the provision of such services to residents of Puerto Rico; to proposals to federal or international agencies or entities for the establishment of programs or projects on the Island.

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Memorials
September 19, 2025
P. of C. 538

To amend Article 5 of Law 3-2017, known as the “Act to Address the Economic, Fiscal and Budgetary Crisis to Ensure the Functioning of the Government of Puerto Rico”, in order to guarantee the autonomy of the Puerto Rico Statistics Institute in compliance with Law 209-2003, as amended.

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Memorials
August 29, 2025
Explanatory Memorial on the P-MARCC

Date: August 29, 2025Explanatory Memorial requested by the Puerto Rico Senate's Joint Commission on Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change on the draft of the Plan for Mitigation, Adaptation and Resilience to Climate Change authored by the Committee of Experts and Advisors on Climate Change.

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Announcements
August 25, 2025
Reduction of Puerto Rico's trade balance of surplus

San Juan, Puerto Rico — August 21, 2025. The Puerto Rico Statistics Institute published foreign trade data for the month of June 2025, allowing for an analysis of performance in terms of international trade for fiscal year 2025, which covers July 2024 to June 2025. Annual exports totaled $60,652,028,821, representing a decrease of 7.23% compared to the previous fiscal year, while annual imports totaled $56,372,227,806, representing an increase of 4.64% compared to the same previous period. This results in a trade balance of $4,279,801,015, a figure that reflects a decrease of 62.8% compared to the $11,508,357,246 recorded in 2024 and constitutes the lowest value in the entire 2010-2025 series. The trade balance is the indicator that measures the difference between the value of exports and that of imports of goods from a jurisdiction. A surplus occurs when exports exceed imports; a deficit, when the opposite happens. This indicator constitutes one of the main measures of international trade, since it reflects both productive capacity and the level of dependence on foreign goods. In general terms, productive capacity refers to what Puerto Rico is able to produce and sell (reflected in exports), and the level of dependence on what Puerto Rico needs to buy abroad (is reflected in imports).

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Memorials
July 29, 2025
P. of C. 669

Date: July 29, 2025 P. of C. 669: To create the “Law for Access to Information on Childbirth Statistics in Puerto Rico”.

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Memorials
July 18, 2025
P. of S. 537

Date: July 18, 2025

To create the “Law for the Establishment of the Unified System for Reporting Incidents of Gender-based Violence in Puerto Rico”, for the purpose of developing a standardized digital platform for the collection, analysis and monitoring of data on gender-based violence; to provide for the interagency integration of data from the Puerto Rico Police, the Department of Justice, the Department of Family, the Department of Health, the Office of the Women's Attorney and the Judiciary; and for other related purposes.

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