Argentina reports the US and Japan before the WTO for restrictions on beef and lemons
Argentina announced it has formally reported the United States and Japan before the World Trade Organization for the constant barriers set to Argentina’s meat and lemon exports to the afore mentioned countries.
Through a statement released by the Foreign Ministry, Argentina said the presentation was done before the WTO Sanitary and Phytosanitary Committee.
The statement remarks that Argentina “has set an energetic complaint against the United States, who has been for years delaying (fresh, chilled and frozen) meat export permits from areas free of foot and mouth disease with vaccination, as well as the refusal to recognize that the Patagonia region is free of FMD without vaccination”.
Furthermore, the communiqué assures that Argentina has determined that there is no scientific reason for not recognizing Argentina’s health status and sanitary conditions, which is recognized by the World Organization for Animal Health, OIE.”
Argentina has also questioned the US delay in reopening its market for Argentine citrus exports, taking into account negotiations have been ongoing for the last seven years.
Likewise with Japan Argentina has demanded the opening of that country’s meats’ market and acknowledgement of Patagonia’s sanitary status, a zone free of FMD without vaccination, and as in the previous case with negotiations ongoing since 2005.
Argentina leads the questioning of several developed countries for the proliferation of sanitary, phytosanitary and technical rules with no scientific fundamentals which restrict in an arbitrary and unjustified the export of agriculture produce, both in developing countries and from those less advanced.
The unjustified restrictions from the US and Japan must be added to the traditional protectionist practices, such as farm subsidies, which perpetuate a misbalanced multilateral trade system and which constitute a further proof of the double standard existent among developed and developing countries regarding international trade, concludes the release.
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Drag EU's arse as well for protectionism on foodstuff...
this could get intresting!
you stab my back, and i will stab your back .
We don't want poisoned lemons get it through your think skull!
Then get in your skull that Mercosur doesn't want anything from you lot, and stop crying about protectionism...
Maybe a lot of Americans wants excellent Argentinian meat instead of the usual McBurp. And I'm still Uruguayan, my lady.
Mercosur is dead
killed by Argentina!!!
Argentina:
Nearly 500 U.S. companies are currently operating in Argentina, employing over 155,000 Argentine workers. U.S. investment in Argentina is concentrated in the manufacturing, information, and financial sectors.
It is easy for any USA company to pull out and say...go to Chile/Peru or Colombia don't you think? Pretty sure those gov't would welcome us with open arms and checkbooks.
No worries, lad. We'll kick them out slowly. One by one, thus giving us time to adapt before the next one goes...
Wrong. The EU, US, Japan own the WTO, bought at the highest bidder. They have never actually practice fair trade, ever. Why would you since you have them paid off.
Lemons from Argentina are sprayed with toxic and dangerous chemicals that cause cancer and nerve damage and injected with artificial yellow coloring because the soil in Argentina is so depleted of minerals in that the lemons grow white on the trees and have no flavor.
Industrial products such as tools, automobiles, machinery and appliances from Argentina are the worst and poorest quality in the world. Even the chinese won't buy them. There is no industrial standard, they use the lowest quality raw materials and no testing is done before they are shipped. This has caused people to be injured by unsafe products, many people have been electrocuted by Argentine washing machines and hot water heaters that leave the factory with short circuits.
All countries should completely avoid ALL Argentine products permanently.
The anti-argies here have gotten to the point of mental illness and desperation you read stuff like above. Kretina is obviously a recently deranged individual, he has completely lost rationality. Poor thing :
Classic of Argentina s ferias
Hope this increases their surplus of lemons
However, the solution is simple. The EU and US will no doubt be glad to provide details of cultivation methods, crop sprays, veterinary products, hormones etc that are not to be used as well as hygiene standards at all stages. Comply with it all. Agree that all foodstuffs for human consumption must be subject to checks by importing countries throughout the production process and at import. If everything is up to EU and US standards, problem solved!
Conq is right, there is a list of products and procedures that have to be audited and proved before we let in any food products. If Arg can't do it too bad for them.
We are not deliberately excluding Arg from importing they are just trying to send us poison products. We get lots of fruit from Chile, Ecuador and Brazil maybe CFK should go ask them how they do it.
Gosh she is dumb.
We need to check your techonology stuff for EMC and EMI, as we need to make sure the materials used producing them aren't blood materials. Furthermore we need to make sure you haven't cheated with the CE markings.
A process that is costly and takes time, hence your products will be charged with 35% taxes, to cover the expenses.
Most likely Arg will get booted out of most Int'l orgs when USA gets new Prez in 2013. I think CFK should call Mugabe, Kim Jung and the Castros and ask them that is going for their citizens. Funny I never see any tourists from there.
Didn't I just read you can't buy U$ ( or any foreign currency) to travel any longer. Hmm that's a pickle.
hahahaha
After the full taxing of 35%, I can assure you your price is not competible anymore :)
Did I read you can't buy houses in Argentina with USD?
Could be the Argentinian peso is worth little, but soon, in Argentina, your dollar is going to be worth less :) I can only hope Uruguay does the same, kicks out the green currency, that is...
I know you don't understand math or economics but maybe have someone read your posts before you look too stupid will ya?
BTW have they let in any Cancer, Diabetes or HIV medication yet, think they will tax that at 35% more too or is CFK just going to let the people die?
I also heard routine dental care is getting very difficult too since all the dental products are stopped too....gross.
Best treatment for cancer is in Cuba, ask Chavez :)
The only reason you guys need a huge amount of medecines, is because your way of living. We aren't filled with chemicals from a young age, so we don't really need all your treatments for bird flu, swine flue, fat reducers, happy pills...
I've never heard of any Argentinian that has died because of general lack of medicines.
I have read about 25 Americans dead because of the sun... bet you don't have a cure for that...
About the USD, the day China chooses to collect what you owe them, you'll see the USD position itself where it really belongs :)
25 people died from the sun out of 350MM...gasp! Maybe they should have turned on the a/c, gone to a mall or the movies. They were probably some eco-nuts or ows people that don't believe in a/c. I guess they learned their lesson.
Only people that have ZERO understanding of how economies work would think China would do anything to rock the boat with the USA. They are completely and utterly dependent upon us to buy their finished products to keep their own economy afloat. Also the bonds they own are denominated in U$ if push comes to shove we would just print more to pay them. It may trash our economy but theirs would go first.
No printing in the world would save you from such scenario, as I wouldn't expect the Chinese to accept their dollars in exchange for more, although freshly printed, dollars :)
Even Arg doesn't have problems paying their Peso denominated bonds but the peso goes down every day so I guess they wouldn't. Thy're actually making money...kind of in a weird bizarro world way.
To have such good english it is really sad you have to make use of personal attacks to proove your point, but fine with me...
Nothing about your debt is payable.
You have been living on the speculation with the pensions of your population, the loans from the World Bank and the patacones you sell to foreign nations.
Having in mind that your natuon still is a centre for the market, your debt might be misleading. Even so, more than half of it belongs to you, which would mean you owe some 8 Trillions dollar. Mainly to China and your own pensionists. Pay that if you can :)
I expect this possible shortfall (projected to be in about 20yrs) will be fixed shortly by increasing the retirement age and having income thresholds. It is an easy fix accounting wise not so easy politically but for myself I have never expected to receive a pension from the state and most people my age and younger think the same.
It will get fixed I'm not worried about it at all.
So you mean the quick fix is to rob the pensionists of their money?
See? That is exactly the reason why we opt for alternative ways...
They raise the retirement age by linking it to the mortality rate and income threshold the payments. As it should have been done when they started the programs in the 60s. That is not robbing anyone how could it be? That is lefty logic and full of holes. Try to explain it to me will ya?
That would be delaying the payout, and would serve as another short term solution. If you aren't planning to make the people work till they are 100, that is...
With 30% inflation, any hard cash amount sitting in a bank account or pension fund is decreasing year on year as is any fixed amount being paid out each month. Given that this is government sponsored inflation, people are being sort of screwed by the present government...
*facepalm*
The present, the past, and the upcoming one...
The system is out dated, as with most of the worlds current economic system, if requires an always increasing input to maximize the output. This would mean a birth rate of at least 2.1 to upkeep the ageing population. That is just not happening in USA and Europe. There's a roof on everything...
Everywhere pension are getting harder to fund, but add in inflation at that level then you find that the amount you are able to give people is significantly lower. Also, with rumours that there aren't that many US$ left in ANSES (as these have been replaced with peso bonds) to match the payment obligations to pensioners you'll have to print more, which creates more inflation.
I don't understand why this government likes inflation so much that it purposefully stimulates an increase in inflation...
Argentina blocks poisoned European books, cancerous Chinese toys, and unsanitary EU beef products (mostly in gourmet processed EU “origin” foods), and we are protectionist.
I repeat, the anti-argies here have lost their minds, their hatred has consumed them entirely. Lovely.
But then unblocked them very soon after so either (i) they weren’t that poisonous or (ii) they were and the government is happy with people being poisoned? Which one?
Toby,You are so indoctrinated it is scaaarrry!! And you logic is baffling.
Print the dollar, anyone.
One famous Fed Chairman (yankeeboy will know the name) went around Europe as it was then, spelling out the devaluation of the dollar and apologised by saying: it's our currency but YOUR problem, sorry!
What he meant of course is that by printing dollars the value of each countries dollar holdings were worth less, but the USA was largely unaffected.
France stood up to them though and insisted having all their US credits paid for in gold before Nixon fcuked the currency for good.
I remember the plane carrying the gold landing in France was televised by the BBC.
The Chin are presently manouevering the Yuan to take over as the reserve currency and it is bound to happen in the future given that the USA have made the same mistakes as GB did after the 1900's in fighting wars they either cannot win or afford, thus crippling the economy.
It seems no-one ever learns, does it not?
The Yuan as a reserve currency..bahahahaha maybe when they stop manipulating it...which will be never.
I did not suggest an announced devaluation of the dollar, but how will the USA pay for the chineses crap without printing more dollars?
You can laugh about the Yuan, but who is manipulating their currency more than Bernanke?
If you read about the fall of the pound, the numbnuts in charge of GB at the time also laughed at the idea of the dollar becoming the reserve currency and we all know what happened next.
My grandfather used to tell me that a dollar was worth five shillings (25p or 1/4 of a GBP). When I first visited America it was $2.4/£. Now we struggle with 1.6/£. The incompetence of the respective UK governments knows no bounds.
I hope not, but with Bernanke in charge you might be looking at a similar scenario. Once the dollar is replaced by whatever I suspect the slide will be just as precipitous as the GBP.
Everyone on the planet knows you are burying yourselfs with trillions in endless wars, in which an enemy spends 2 million on a succesful yet SINGULAR attack (in location), and you respond with 2 trillion in multi-year military forays.
It may look “macho” and all, but ultimately not very smart. The only people that don't see that are the Americans. Oh well.
Its all good no worries. We'll make the money again we just need a new Prez. to right he ship. Progressives can't run a lemonade stand much less a country look at the mess you are in and you won't be able to dig out of it for 20-25 yrs.
At the moment the USD is worth almost SEVEN (SEITE) Argentine arse wipers, laughingly called Pesos.
Spending Canadian money at the moment? Bet your family in Argentina think you are complete fcuk-up whining all the time about western nations while you happily take the money, which they cannot have access to due to The Mad Bitch Of Argentina and her 'model'.
And how are you going to fill the hole for all the motor part imports?
Ah! I see, the automakers are going to close the plants! So you don't need to fill it yourself. Have you seen all the lay-offs of your amigos at Fiat, Ford, VW, et al?
Do you know the meaning of hypocrite? Or just Pirats and illegal aliens.
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