Panama files dispute before WTO against Argentina’s trade restrictions
Panama filed a dispute against Argentina at the World Trade Organization on Wednesday alleging the government of President Cristina Fernandez had broken WTO rules by discriminating against imports of goods and services.
Panama's complaint is the eighth WTO dispute involving Argentina since May, equal to the total number of WTO disputes globally in the whole of last year. The EU, US, Japan and Mexico have also filed complaints regarding alleged restrictions to trade on the side of Argentina.
The administration of President Cristina Fernandez rebutted by filing trade restriction complaints against the US, EU and particularly Spain.
Diplomatic sources said the Panamanian complaint refers to measures involving taxes, companies’ registry, limits to sending benefits overseas and financial services activities.
The filing of the complaint means both sides have sixty days to try and solve the dispute, and if finally there is no accord, plaintiffs can request the WTO to name a panel of experts to rule on the issue.
The frictions were born out of Argentina’s strict restrictions on imports, which have been described by over forty countries as ‘protectionist’ and contrary to free trade. Restrictions are applied through the non automatic licences which supposedly ‘cool’ imports for sixty days although the timetable is rarely respected by Argentina.
These governments argue that exports to Argentina as a result of restrictive policies have fallen dramatically, but the government of Cristina Fernandez says imports from those countries have actually increased substantially, well above the growth rate of Argentine exports.
Another complaint is that licences extended by Argentina are part of a ‘balanced trade” policy which demands importers to ship overseas similar values or invests locally to have their licences approved.
Argentina has also had clashes and complaints from its neighbours and Mercosur members such as Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
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It is find mind you. Argentines love being hated. It is not us who will pay for trying to destroy our country and way of life.
Just like “by virtue” ... happy Monty?
I have such an expansive IQ I can remember the most picayune of details effortlessly.
Your IQ is average at best.
The only people intent on destroying Argentina are your government and YOU.
Eventually one of three things will happen:
1. Argentina gets a decent government, one who honours the treaties it signs.
2. Argentina will be cut off from the rest of the world and become like North Korea.
3. Argentina will p!ss off the wrong country who will give you a good shoeing. My bet it'll be China.
Good luck in your poverty Tobias.
You shouldn’t celebrate your country’s actions and I doubt that you really approve them. Argentina is behaving like those people who use the bus or metro, but don’t pay. They get away with it due to a mixture of public apathy, reluctance of most citizens to pick a fight and even a little sympathy from some. The problem is that at some point the good people decide they have had enough and throw you off the bus.
Yeh, yeh, I know the bus is foreign built, uses leaded petrol, the driver hates you, you don’t want anything to do with the other passengers, the bus will probably crash and it is good exercise walking anyway.
You are the wittiest, sangfroid contributor here, with an admirable equanimity in conduct. And to top it off, you can redact cogent analysis/opinion.
If all antis were as yourself, this website would be an outpost of elevated colloquy instead of a mudpit of porcine wallow.
Dec 13th, 2012 - 01:51 pm
Tobias, you just keep on doing it, you DO NOT speak for us all, and in no way do I like being hated, quite the reverse. I personally am happy to like everybody and hope that most people like me, that way there are fewer conflicts!!!!!
YOU ARE NOT ARGENTINE!!! You are an expat of some sort! Like the many one meets in Mendoza all the time, talking about how glad they are to have left the north with its eternal stream of bad news and depressing developments.
#6
And it's the UPE.....United Pariahs of Earth. lol All 3 or 4 of them.....
Was it filled with nice peaceful happy people?
You know the Expats will leave if the economy gets much worse and riots start breaking out don't you?
They're the lucky ones, like me, that can go back to civilization any time they want. They'll leave for the same reasons I did.
1. It keeps a lot of Argentinian goverment workers activity employed.
2. The “mad empress without clothes” has more excuses of why she is being unfairly persecuted.
3. It's a great example for other countries not to consider the Argentine model for economics.
4. A gentile reminder for a probable socialist president in Chile to continue maintaining a strong defense budget.
Dec 13th, 2012 - 02:53 pm
Yes I am, and 5th generation. My maternal ancestors are Mapuche, and my paternal ones were Vasco/French.
What I don't like is the arrogant way you try to speak for all of us on this web page. All you can do is speak for yourself!!!!!
No guards, no walls, no commando assaults or kidnappings to worry about.
It is a security you will never know.
and the main reason I moved back TO CIVILIZATION
We had so many commando assaults and kidnappings in my neighborhood in BA is was terrifying!
and I noticed it is getting much worse there day by day
When hyperinflation hits people will probably kill you for a bag of sugar.
I hope you stocked up
It is common knowledge that crime is escalating rapidly I wonder if they will ever release the current stats,
Yankeeboy, just because you live within the ranch of some oil baron sorrounded by 10 hectares of zealously patrolled farmland. So of course you can walk up to the 35 million dollar house... you sleep in the stables and report to work at the door by 6am!
Do you collect a government check or were you handed a government job?
You've posted a lot of anti-US/European drivel, but I want you to for once talk about the domestic situation and tell me if it bothers you.
Sure you do... happy like this:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qs_2q_erTK0
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_HeHMzYKLJI
What a happy country, wanna move there right now.
I have said this before, do not take this forum as being representative of the public in the UK. The opinions expressed are purely the opinions of the contributors. Frankly, I am embarrassed by some of the vindictive and foul language used on this site - on both sides.
I do not hate ANY Argentinian. I assume that they are , in the main, just like anybody else - good and bad.
Like the people in the UK they just want to get on with their lives without any hassle.
Politicians are the same , some good and some bad.
When you vote, you hope they will improve things for all but power also goes to their heads and they gradually turn into dictators if left in long enough.
After this preamble, what I mean to say is, if I post anything derogatory against the Argentine, I mean the government and not people such as you.
As for Nos., my perception is that he is a young academic who is a bit devolved from the real world and relishes the challenge of showing off his debating powers and his self-proclaimed knowledge in a style of English that would fail him from university entrance in the UK.
Have you ever read “Martin Fierro”? Therein lies your answer.
Besides, don't you get enough debate about Argentina's domestic affairs from the Anti-northern-fiends?
There are accounts of the servants of manor lords having wicked tendencies, largely due to having their life's expenses covered no matter what. Hard work develops character, and strengthens a society. Free money creates these kinds of problems. Are you in the least bit worried about your family's safety?
Cities are living organisms, and do not remain exanimate.
To discourse on argentine politics here is a non-starter. Again, pore over Martin Fierro.
The “outsiders” are at the gates with their flails and flares, ready to burn us all downin a pyre of revanche or tear us asunder as a rag, at the first sign of evinced internecine contetion.
Another thing we don't worry about here in the USA
My friend's grandmother lives in San Isidro and is terrified to leave the house because all of her friends have been injured while being mugged. She has lived in the same house for over 50 yrs!
And you see “Optimus Princeps”... Right on queue.
@30 You don't “discuss” anything with anyone of significance. You don't have sufficient education, intelligence or maturity. I appreciate that you may have made as much progress as that of which you are currently capable. However, it would probably be best if you stayed away until you have finished kindergarten. We are aware that parrots can “speak” advanced words. But parrots are neither educated nor intelligent. Can you laugh? So can hyenas. And that is what you remind me of. An uneducated, unintelligent, scavenging, carrion-eater. A bottom feeder. Whose ass are you eating from?
@32 It's somewhere where the “crew” can stick their feet down and feel the bottom. Otherwise, they have a “Belgrano” moment. “Target. Mark. Shoot!” Glug, glug, glug!
@29 He does discuss his domestic situation on this forum a lot. He tells us often that he lives in Mendoza, that all is well there with little crime and a booming economy. He left education early through circumstances beyond his control but he continues to educate himself, presumably online. He is young and poor which he is very proud of because he believes poverty equals freedom.
Other than that he tells us he doesn't date girls or boys, appears to live on the edge of society, has NPD and wants the Argentina to be as isolated from the world as he is from society.
I have pulled him up for speaking for an entire nation - he sometimes tries to speak for the whole world - because it undermines his assertions. He is perfectly entitled to make his opinions known but his constant need to claim he speaks for a whole country is a classic NPD symptom. I have met and am friends with many Argentines but have never met any like TTT.
He is idealist (not a bad thing to be) but with no life experience to set it against. The arrogance of youth, I guess.
Clap, clap, clap.
Kudos, to this piece I must accord, with reluctance of pride given the source conflicting with a duty to confer what is merited. Wry humor, but more touching of all was the near punctilious concern for biographical detail. And I appreciate any patent attempt at being compendious and succint yet exact.
Good post Elaine, were it not you who redacted it I would catalogue it as a demure hagiography. My accolades.
on 'cue' not 'queue'
That's the trouble, you don't discuss.
You pontificate,preach and harangue to satisfy your ego, believing that using arcane and verbose language, this will convince people that your thoughts have gravitas and must merit deep respect.
Wrong !
No I don't discuss, with you. Do you discuss with me British “politics”?
“I do not hate ANY Argentinian. I assume that they are , in the main, just like anybody else - good and bad.”
I have lived more than three years in Argentina and can confirm that you are absolutely right.
Most Argentinos in the provinces are very good and friendly people. Buenos Aires OTOH suffers from being too populous, lots of nice people, but even a small percentage of them can give it a bad name.
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