THE EARLY YEARS
The CACM had its beginnings with the Committee for Economic Cooperation of the Central American Isthmus, which formulated the Central American Economic Integration Program of 1952. This economic coalition led to a series of agreements including: the Agreement on the Regime for Central American Integration Industries (1958), the Multilateral Treaty of Central American Free Trade/Economic Integration (1958), the Central American Agreement on the Equalization of Import Duties and Charges (1959), and the Protocol on Central American Preferential Tariff (1959). The tenets of these agreements were folded into the CACM treaty of 1960.