The merceologia is the discipline that studies the classification of goods by either animal, vegetable or mineral or function, according to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System - SA, based on the following questions: what is it?; what is done?; what is? bearings allowing the correct classification, and for this reason that according to the characteristics of the training chemists and chemical engineering to merceologia proposed as an elective.

A lthough stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) is a native of Peru, has become a business opportun ity far the development of the crop due to the variety of ecologica l zones to the country. The contribution of the show lies in chemical engineering with firsthand information source for the competitive advantage that this plan! will become a new alternative crop for Peru, showing al the preliminary technical and economic feasibility of processing.

The merceologia is the discipline that studies the classification of goods by either animal, vegetable or mineral or function, according to the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System - SA, based on the following questions: what is it?; what is done?; what is? bearings allowing the correct classification, and for this reason that according to the characteristics of the training chemists and chemical engineering to merceologia proposed as an elective.

Aunque la stevia (Stevia rebaudiana Bertoni) no es oriunda del Perú, se ha convertido en una oportun idad de negocios para el desarrollo de su cultivo debido a la variedad de pisos ecológicos que cuenta el país. La contribución de la ingeniería química reside en demostrar, con información de primera fuente, la ventaja competitiva para que esta planta se convierta en un nuevo cultivo alternativo para el Perú, demostrándose a nivel preliminar la factibil idad técnico-económica de su procesamiento.