SANTIAGO : The increasing specialization of Latin America's exports to China, focusing on oil and mining, shows a "worrying" trend, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in a report on Thursday. The ECLAC warned that as China advances in its efforts toward energy decarbonization, staples from Latin America such as oil could be at risk. Latin America's trade with China has skyrocketed, growing to nearly $500 billion last year from about $14 billion in 2000, but the boom has been made up of just a small number of commodities.