The Permanent Secretariat of the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), together with the National Commission for Protection of Competition (CONACOM) of Paraguay, and with the support of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of Paraguay, held the IX Annual Meeting of the Working Group on Trade and Competition of Latin America and the Caribbean (WGTC) in AsunciĆ³n, Paraguay, on 3 and 4 October 2019.