Argentina asks Mercosur to draft an industrial policy and contain Asian imports

Wednesday, June 29th 2011 - 03:57 UTC

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Mercosur Ministers of Industry meeting in Paraguay, ahead of the presidential summit, discussed on Tuesday different mechanisms to weaken the flood of ‘cheap’ manufactured goods from Southeast Asia. Read full article

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Frank
“discussing strategic items of the production sector, find balanced solutions for the block’s asymmetries and also to think on joint strategies against disloyal competition from outside the zone”.

So, if I am reading this right, the RGs want to sell soy and stuff to China but don't want to buy stuff from China.... what one might call a unilateral trade relationship...

I don't quite see where 'disloyal' enters into it...

And some one should point out to her that China is in East Asia... not South East Asia....
Jun 29th, 2011 - 05:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Beef
Ah, don't you just love free trade?
Jun 29th, 2011 - 05:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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MarkWhelan
But the trade is contained.

Just look at the docks
Full of CONTAINers.
Jun 29th, 2011 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Forgetit87
The Chinese are hardly liberal when it comes to trade. Market reserves and strict import licenses preclude foreign goods from gaining ground on domestically produced ones. That the Chinese import soya from Argentina - and we know China desperately NEEDS foodstuff imports - doesn't mean Argentina should have to put up with China's overall protectionism and the heterodox ways it has found to export products without revealing their origin. This is specially so when Chinese products aren't actually needed, and are in fact just replacing domestic production by means of illegal trade practices: practices that China itself suppresses when it comes to its own domestic market.
Jun 29th, 2011 - 11:52 am - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
well said !!
Jun 29th, 2011 - 04:46 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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jerry
“ahead of the presidential summit” ??? Argentina´s president has decided not to go to the meeting, but stay in Argentina to campaign for her re-election.
Jun 29th, 2011 - 04:56 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Artillero601
medical advise?
Jun 29th, 2011 - 05:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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ElaineB
@6.She keeled over again and knocked her head. According to the papers here in BsAs she has been told not to fly. Make of that what you will.
Jun 29th, 2011 - 06:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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Fido Dido
and again, there is no free trade with bogus free traders.
Jun 29th, 2011 - 08:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0
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