Argentina after a more balanced trade with the US, says Ambassador Argüello
Argentine Ambassador to US Jorge Argüello stated on Wednesday that the best way to reach a more balanced trade with the US is increasing Argentine exports to that country and clarified that Argentina has no plans to buy less, but rather selling more goods.
Argüello made these comments at the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, recalling that while in 2003 Argentina had a positive trade balance of one billion dollars, “in 2011 the figure was of 4.7 billion dollars but in favour of the United States”.
In that scenario, “the Argentine Government has no intentions of buying less from the US but selling more goods” hoping to reach “a fair bilateral trade, that grows in a sustainable manner and with positive effects for both countries”.
“The rhythm of US imports into Argentina doubled the rhythm of Argentine exports to the US during the last decade. The rate growth of US exports will reach, at least in the case of Argentina, the aim of doubling US exports by 2014 as stated by President Obama during the 2010 State of the Union speech” underlined Ambassador Argüello.
Argüello also recalled that it was President Obama who reiterated, following bilateral meetings with President Cristina Fernández both in France and in Colombia, that the US and Argentina have links that go back two centuries and stressed the fact that “this is an opportunity to build” based on that history.
“It is possible to promote the development of our bilateral economic and trade relations as long as we hold on to a long term, strategic focused goal which means managing trade frictions through communication, negotiation and by actively seeking the convergence of interests,” the Ambassador added.
Regarding foreign investment Argüello highlighted that aside from being one of the world’s largest investors, the US is the second largest investor in Argentina, and the country receives the fourth largest amount of direct US investments in Latin America, behind Brazil, Mexico and Chile.
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On the other hand CFK prohibits USA goods ALREADY purchased from entering the country. It is totally different and you know it.
What face do you prefer to chew on? We have a nice selection here in Uruguay, ovale faces, round faces, hairy faces... You name it!
hahaha, that's not on the menu :)
Why is it you folks have this compulsive behaviours? Shooting children in schools, stealing resources, cheating on elections, and now, EATING FACES!!!
You guys are a sick, sick breed...
Overall it is much much safer to live anywhere in the USA as compared to the same type of place in SA such as NYC is MUCH safer than San Paulo or BA. We don't live with guards in every shop, behind large gates, we don't fear walking alone in our neighborhoods, parks etc. If you have never been here you wouldn't understand.
Im sick of stereotying in this forum. Im guilty of it in the past but I learnt my lesson. I used to think that all americans were dumb, arrogant and fat. That was until I served hand in hand with them in Iraq and Afghanistan. I learned very quickly they were none of the above and very similar to me. I realised that I had judged an entore nation when I have been in contact with it. I now have some close friends in the US military. The same as I do with the Arg army and meeting alot of them on a UN tour in Cyprus.
You may have not liked what yankeeboy said but that gives you no right to slate the United States.
You take 1 persons actions in Argentina, and project it on the whole population.
As I told you, you set the standards, and from now on, you are responsible for everything that happens in USA...
Want a hand? A cheek maybe?
yanqui is constantly telling me were I come from, as he is spreading lies about every nation in SA, he doesn't present a single source to back his arguments, plus he judges whole countries based on actions of single men.
Furthermore he laughes at the dead civilians in every war USA has commited atrocities, stating, and I quote, “Might is Right”.
I have no sympathy for that man, him, together with conqueror, will never get any serious response from me, for the simple reason that they have no sympathy for human life.
I don't call out the 1 off killings of teens coming out of discos by police or the club security, or the 1 off secuestro express, or the beating and raping of elderly people for $200 pesos, or the single begging children in the streets or restaurants, or neighbors/vigilantes burning a suspected rapist (pedophile) in his house, or or or or ...do I?
No I mostly talk about the hysterical mentally unstable Dictator and her minions further destroying a whole country and the wealth of 30MM people.
You talk of 1 offs like they're common. They're not. We just catch the criminals or the deranged and in SA they don't.
I also don't think America has commmtied atrocities either. Now Guzz I ask you be sensitive if you comment on this. I served in the British army on two tours of Iraq and one of Afghanistan. I did not witness any atrocities. No innocent civilians were ever targeted. Mistakes may have been made and civilians accidently occured (I dont condone but it happens, I have personal experince of this, i know
books.google.co.uk/books?id=C8esm7yb49IC&pg=PA192&lpg=PA192&dq=lance+bombardier+andrew+spooner&source=bl&ots=LfCS2OBBsi&sig=NLnujcuT5l-Qu54FjBCCSjTiUFA&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2HHHT5u9KcXd8AOegdnzDQ&ved=0CFEQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=lance%20bombardier%20andrew%20spooner&f=false
In war people get hurt. Even the ones that don't deserve to be. Sad fact of life.
I saw the video of an US helicopter shooting at civilians, you know, the one that wikileaks released. I saw the pictures of Abu Ghraib.
In war people get hurt, sometimes by accident, other times... It's harder to explain it as an “accident”...
They say by July it is going to be 8/1.
Bye bye savings
I hope toby doesn't have his massive savings in Pesos. He is better off buying a new car and not driving it.
hahaha
Yankeeboy lies through his teeth when he claims he does not use one person's actions to perform syllogism on 40 million others.
Lots of SAs think they are smart or rich or privileged in their own country but here they're just maids or gardeners.
@20 Go on then. Explain the 30,000+ “disappeared”. An “accident”, was it?
@22 Argies are genocides. There can be no doubt about this. Argies have exterminated approximately 60 million Amerindians. Argies are complicit in exterminations in other “countries”. Argies even kill their own. Not that this should be held against them. It's natural for them.
@23 They get as high as maids or gardeners?
hahahaha
So are your MASSIVE savings in Pesos?
I know I'm smarter, you know I'm smarter (reason why you whinge like a little gamine who is being ignored when I begin usufruct of your language's panoply of vocabulary), everyone knows I'm smarter.
If you refuse to believe me, the fact no one here ever suggest your posts are insightful, yet many have been honest enough to aver some of my posts are extremely insightful, well-thought out, informative, and penetrating (and I will be happy to provide you with a dozen quotes if you wish), even as I double up as a TTT (a hand forced upon me by the barrage of insults pelted at us), should be enough and decisive evidence for you to ascertain the truth.
So Arguello's statement that Argentina plans to buy less goods from abroad sounds a bit 'rich.' I suspect the American's already suspect this.
But you have to admit that with The Mad Bitch of Argentina and her motley crew including this prat - 'it's all going swimmingly'.
More like going down the open sewers in BsAs.
They have nothing we want or need or can't get better for cheaper somewhere else.
They just lost the trade preferences in the EU today. So they are in effect shut out of the 2 largest markets in the world. I hope they can figure out how to use soy to run their cars and heat their house. haha
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