The American research that I've seen indicates, no. We should take that literally. It hasn't helped. It hasn't provided them with an additional advantage. The trade preferences that Honduras has now with the FTA they have signed with the U.S. are trade advantages that it already had for several years; it could be close to a decade and a half. Honduras was receiving this as part of the U.S. policy to contain the expansion of regimes that were against the U.S., such as Nicaragua, El Salvador, and so on. Honduras was given a very generous market access in textiles and it was simultaneously encouraged to establish free trade zones where those factories would set up shop and from there they would sell to the U.S. market.
All that was renewed on a temporary basis every now and then by the U.S. Congress. Eventually, the U.S. decided to make it permanent by signing an FTA with Honduras and also with the other central American countries.