Uruguay reveals the existence of an “Argentina 2020: imports substitution” plan
Uruguay’ Foreign Affairs Minister Luis Almagro revealed that the government of President Cristina Fernandez is fully involved in the implementation of a plan called “Argentina 2020: substitution of imports” and therefore bilateral trade negotiations that are difficult, will continue on that same path for several years.
Almagro, who is one of the main sponsors of a ‘negotiations strategy’ with Argentina on trade issues, (which has split the Uruguayan cabinet) told a parliamentary committee that concrete results of the dialogue have been ‘partial’ and it’s hard to anticipate major changes in the short term.
“These measures do not come as a surprise for us nor are we expecting them to pass quickly. The Argentine plan is called “Argentina 2020: substitution of imports” and this title has neither euphemisms nor any side doors anywhere: it’s a head-on plan to substitute imports”, said Almagro addressing the Uruguayan Lower House Committee of International Affairs earlier this week.
Almagro went on to say that the Uruguayan Executive is not pleased. “The results of the strategy implemented with Argentina have been partial”, admitted the head of Uruguay’s diplomacy, who nevertheless promised more efforts.
“We have decided to fight for each (imports) licence, for each closed door. We have been able to fight for our rights, for us and for those conferred by Mercosur. Are we happy with the results? No, because every job loss is a pain, and is spite of the fact that bilateral trade globally has increased 17%, there have been sectors that have suffered such as clothing, printing and the food industry”, he added.
Meanwhile Uruguayan Vice president Danilo Astori who has always been more critical towards Argentina said that the protectionist policies of President Cristina Fernandez administration always are “a shock”, basically because “we have different views”.
“We have countries in the region that target an open economy, such as Uruguay, because of strategic necessity and we have countries which, in their right and legitimacy prefer a protectionist focus regarding its international insertion policies, such is the case of Argentina. That generates shocks”.
Brazil, China and Argentina in that order are Uruguay’s main trade partners, but for manufactured goods Mercosur prevails and Argentina is the market for at least forty different manufacturing sectors in the country.
Since Argentina began implementing and expanding the so called ‘non automatic import licences’ regime several years ago, and in February this year the anticipated imports’ sworn statement, which can discretionally be approved or rejected, the measures have strongly slowed down the flow of trade not only with Uruguay, but with the rest of Mercosur partners and the world.
Precisely this week a group of countries including the US, EU, Japan, Australia among others presented a report to the World Trade Organization exposing Argentina’s trade-restrictive measures and procedures and lack of transparency.
Although the report with no formal accusation ends requesting Argentina provide a detailed written explanation of why in its view these measures and practices are consistent with WTO rules, signatory members “reserve their rights to pursue this matter further”.
In the case of Uruguay many of those industrial sectors which depend on the Argentine market have been left virtually knock out, and (over two thousand) workers sent to collect unemployment checks.
The Uruguayan government has promised tax breaks, soft credit, labour cost support and other incentives such as helping look for new markets, but until these sectors don’t adapt to true international competitiveness conditions, it is hard to see any major changes in the short term.
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I wonder how many Latam or world leaders turn up for the Christina and Hector show on April 2 ( should have been April 1 ; it makes more sense).
Nobody is forcing Argentina to buy things.
Better just cut them off from the outside world like DPRK.
government is below 1% and exports minus imports is almost zero.
synopsis: the hard work (private sector) of Argentinians is making the country richer, the government is not affecting the economy much.
kkalev4economy.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/argentina_gdp_contributions.jpg
These subsidies are they pushed down into industry so that they appear in any tax calculations as growth.. which we all know they aren't.
Take for example the Gas Plus scheme which because of fuel price capping has made it completely uneconomic for you to develop your national oil and gas deposits, thereby making you have to go to the market to buy gas and oil at higher than international rates, because selling anything to Argentina is very very risky.
That's not stimulating any kind of growth or making you richer. It's just creating dependency and impending economic failure once the central bank reserves and pension pot are dry.
How can anyone take you seriously when you are so biased.
There is growth, people have a job they produce something. small or big at least they are trying.
stop being so negative.
so you guys in North Europe are very very productive.
Get off your high horse pleaze.
Did they by any chance include the words “Sig” and “Heil” and the phrase “us the master race” in them? lol.
Poor lad, Northern Europe has any civilization at all thanks to the Romans, and this idiot pretends they created it all. No Romans, and The Cestrian would be busy doing this:
“In wonderful savageness live the nation of the Fenni, and in beastly poverty, destitute of arms, of horses, and of homes; their food, the common herbs; their apparel, skins; their bed, the earth; their only hope in their arrows, which for want of iron they point with bones. Their common support they have from the chase, women as well as men; for with these the former wander up and down, and crave a portion of the prey. Nor other shelter have they even for their babes, against the violence of tempests and ravening beasts, than to cover them with the branches of trees twisted together; this a reception for the old men, and hither resort the young. Such a condition they judge more happy than the painful occupation of cultivating the ground, than the labour of rearing houses, than the agitations of hope and fear attending the defense of their own property or the seizing that of others. Secure against the designs of men, secure against the malignity of the Gods, they have accomplished a thing of infinite difficulty; that to them nothing remains even to be wished.”
Tacitus
And neither are the Uruguayo with this 'cheese eating surrender monkey' to plaigerise Bush.
You cannot negotiate with liars and those who NEVER pay their dues.
Forget the Argies, develop business eslewhere - it does not matter where: the Mercosur pact is dead, killed by Argentina and Brasil.
Try to be original for once in your mulleted goose-stepping life.
Not my fault.
Hitler Youth Movement - Le Camping
CFK trying to change constitution so she can stay in power - Hitler did similar.
Nazi Persiecuted Jews - Argentina Persiecute the islanders and native indians
Nazi Germany Implemented Protectionist, then expanded by invasion of other countries for their resources - Argentina implements protectionist, looks to expand into the falklands to get the oil.
Theres a lot more similarities such as your leader CFK being of german decent, any chance her father or mother were german nazi that escaped nazi germany after the war. Romours and evidence point to Hitler himself hiding in argentina after ww2 after faking his own death. Why does argentina want countrol of all the south atlantice islands and antartica, perhaps to regains control of Nazi bases or contact the advance Nazi that fly in UFOS as some compiracy theorist would have us all believe? Your now even planning on rebuilding your military too! Just like Germany did under hitler.
Seriously Argentina is the fouth riche and the world knows it and can see it coming. Only difference is, where much better prepared then we were before. And argentina is in the mist of economic implosion so i guess we don't have to worry, as your clearly destroying yourselves.
Maybe because it is in our vicinity??? I know this is shocking to the Brits, but countries have the most influence in their immediate vicinity. Antarctica is in our immediate vicinity. The Brits can protest night and day about this and do their best to deny Argentina a place in the Antarctica with other nations, but your protestations in that area are irrevelant. We hold the leadership of the Antarctic Treaty.
The Roman empire/civilisation never extended to Northern Europe, despite several attempts they were never able to conquer the Germanic tribes (Ancestors of the Anglo Saxons), who later swept down and destroyed the Empire. All that was left was burnt out buildings.
If the Fenni had possessed piles of gold, fine wines and beautiful women, no doubt the good Tacitus would have slaughtered the old and the children, sent the men to the arena and enslaved the women.
As a survival strategy around Romans it clearly worked.
The Romans may have had a great civilization, but many of the things they did were not what today would be called civilised.
Every Roman invasion and subsequent conquest involved the slaughter of millions.
@ 15 Truth_Telling_Troll
Uruguay is in your more “immediate vicinity” you don’t own that!
Protestations are never “irrelevant”, when you already control the territory.
The Germans didn't destroy the Empire, the Empire destroyed the Empire for giving them too much power in the Roman military, since the Romans themselves had become too “good” and fat to be military men. The Germans didn't want to destroy the Empire, they wanted to live in it, to live like it, and to be defended by it from the Mongoloids pressing from the east.
The Antarctic Treaty Secretariat was established in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2004 by the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Meeting.
The current Executive Secretary is Manfred Reinke (Germany), appointed for a four-year term (2009-2014).
Argentina does not hold the leadership of the Antarctic Treaty.
The world just locates its office in B.A..
A deal over Antarctica including Argentina should be entirely possible, but will depend on S Atlantic issues being settled first. Or I cannot see talks even starting.
The pressure is on Argentina in this respect, as the British are more than positioned and capable to proceed anyway.
Either way Roman civilization did not take over Northern Europe, Northern Europeans took over Roman civilisation.
Anglo-Saxon economics at work!
Do you all comment on the quality of each member's mullet?
Anglo-saxon economics used to be respected, I admit. But alas, we live in the present.
www.economonitor.com/nouriel/2009/02/09/roubini-anglo-saxon-model-has-failed/
And no doubt the Northern Europeans overran the Empire, for protection, wealth and to be “Roman”. That's exactly why Europe went backwards for 600 years after the 5th century.
Are you of this world? You don't seem very perceptive.
Maybe because it is in our vicinity??? '
With that logic its Chilean......and you lot should pack up your tents and foxtrot oscar back to your BA squats....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Drake_passage_en.png
The Antarctic peninsular sector has the legal prior claim of ownership established by the United Kingdom.
Until the UK rescinds this claim, it is upheld through international law...... whatever is said or claimed by Argentina and Chile.
Sorry guys, this is just the way the world is.
War of the Antarctic, the clock is ticking.
uk a country with 3 million unemployed and getting worse..with a foreign debt 0f 9 trillion P,and a public debt of 1 trillion P....Strange that they are critics....
GUHey brits,just concentrate in your Huge domestic problems!
You are out of your mind, well you are lying through your teeth. No one recognizes the UK Antarctic claim. Just like all others are not recognized. This is explicitly in the literature itself.
Sorry. And this time no self-determination or Chile as an ally.
However, in Argentinian schools, when they're not hissing at each other with their forked tongues, they're typically learning about how Argentina should rule the world, including a fair swathe of the antarctic that they were pretty much the last people to arrive at.
More lebensraum for the mulleted gimps?
Teeth, wot teeths that then, too poor for them hareabouts gov.
No-one in their right mind ever trusts Argentina.
So why did you post a link to the Drake Passage?? Nong..
Bullying again?
Most countries would do this.
The only issue is Argentina's way of mis-managing the process.
I think you are correct: stop all trade with Argentina.
Then, we in Uruguay will be 75M USD BETTER OFF. Because that is the balance of payments deficit in favour of Argentina. We can buy the crap we used to buy off you elsewhere but hopefully it won't be crap.
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