Mercosur and EU to exchange tariff reduction proposals in early February

Tuesday, January 14th 2014 - 07:32 UTC

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Paraguay's Foreign minister Eladio Loizaga said on Monday that at the latest in early February Mercosur and the European Union would be exchanging their tariff reduction proposals for the much delayed free trade agreement. The deadline originally was December but it was delayed on request from Brussels. Read full article

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JohnN
Free trade to include the EU overseas territories such as Falkland Islands is a must for any negotiation, including respect of boundaries of any and all EU overseas territories, including Falklands. Filmus' rants that Falklands oil explorers are criminals should cause EU to put a halt to any further discussions that would include Argentina until and unless those rants stop.
Jan 14th, 2014 - 02:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
Free trade is what they are negotiating,
not 'tariff reduction'.

And, yes, The Falkland Islands are within the deal.
Jan 14th, 2014 - 04:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Don Miguel
Great read - Mercosur is so inefficient: http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702303370904579296352951436072
Jan 14th, 2014 - 09:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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GeoffWard2
#3 I like the sentence it contains:

“Brazil is becoming Argentina, Argentina is becoming Venezuela, and Venezuela is becoming Zimbabwe.”
Jan 15th, 2014 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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