MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentina trade restrictions cut Uruguayan exports by almost half in February
Uruguayan exports to Argentina during the month of February plummeted 46.6% compared to the same month a year ago according to Uruguay’s Union of Exporters, which attributes the poor performance to the imports restrictions imposed by the neighbouring country. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesAnd Argentina wants Uruguay to help them out?
Mar 05th, 2012 - 08:55 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'll have a pint of whatever they are drinking.
There is a good reason for this restrictions and if something is not done soon they will become stronger restrictions as people start waking up to the theft and corruption, but Argentine will always keep coming to visit their brothers on Uruguay.
Mar 05th, 2012 - 08:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Uruguay’s Minister of Industry and Energy Roberto Kreimerman admitted that Brazil suspended the access of textiles from Uruguay alleging that they were essentially Chinese cloth rolls with minimum input but stamped as Uruguayan manufactured and dispatched to Brazil.”
www.en.mercopress.com/2012/02/24/uruguay-admits-textile-exports-could-be-infringing-brazil-s-antidumping-rules
@1 I think you'll find that you want a pint of whatever the Uruguayans are drinking by bending over when the argentinians come a calling rather than standing up and having dignity.
Mar 05th, 2012 - 09:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@2 That's called an allegation. Allegations need proof. You have any proof?
Well apart from the obvious resident Argie idiot at 2) lets deal with the real facts.
Mar 05th, 2012 - 09:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Argentina are broke and the government know it, that is why they are imposing the ridiculous import licensing scheme and stopping 'USD flight'. It will all backfire on them but will cause collaterall damage on their neighbours, especially Uruguay.
I do hope that Uruguay can manage to make headway with exports to other parts of the world. We need to sink these excrable bastards of the Argentina government into the Plate, or better still, in the Marianas Trench.
Poor President Mujica.You can see he is a decent man being put between a rock and a hard place by the Argentine gangsters.
Mar 05th, 2012 - 09:34 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Perhaps the UK should divert some of its purchases of Argentine goods to Uruguay , where I am sure the orders would be much appreciated.
US not happy with the Argentines again:
Mar 05th, 2012 - 09:38 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/94547/us-trade-official-argentina-closer-to-losing-trade-benefits
IMHO there is now an economic squeeze being put on Argentina from the UK and US and the noose is tightening on The Botox Queen.
Also another near disaster in RG land from the crumbling railway system. could have had devastating consequences, children on a school bus involved this time:
http://www.buenosairesherald.com/article/94547/us-trade-official-argentina-closer-to-losing-trade-benefits
This is gaining momentum.
This is precisely why Uruguay needs places like Falklands. This is why the Falklands needs to grow into a size-able market in order to survive.
Mar 05th, 2012 - 10:02 pm - Link - Report abuse 0http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20120304-706166.html
Mar 05th, 2012 - 11:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Yet more bad news for Argentina. Fast going down the tubes it seems.
Using the oil factor, UK (with USA support) should go to the table with chile uruguay and some others and offer very attractive deals upfront.
Mar 06th, 2012 - 01:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well ,Old woman Mujica got his just desserts served up very quickly.Ban all the spanish fishing fleets,ban all Falkland vessels,be our bestest friends and a fortnight later he is well and truly put up against the wall and shafted. We wont cry for you Mujica...you brought it on yourself and the people of the Falklands know how much of a friend you really are.
Mar 06th, 2012 - 02:14 am - Link - Report abuse 0I thought that on of teh sole triumphs of Nestor's time in power was the consolidation of MERCOSUr. In fact, when he died, heads of MERCOSUR states were saying how much he pushed for a strong trading block in MERCOSUR just like the EU. How sad now that this strong bond between these countries is being eroded by unilateral trade declarations from Argentina. As we in the EU know, you have to take the rough with the smooth when you sign trade treaties, not just shut up shop when things get bad...
Mar 06th, 2012 - 10:36 am - Link - Report abuse 0I love how they still thing MERCOSUR exists. They're all getting the shaft from the Argies and they keep saying 'oh, we support argentina's colonialist policies' and then they go back to getting the shaft.
Mar 06th, 2012 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0One couldn't make stuff like this up.
As I have said before Argentina uses laws, treaties,agreements as bludgeons. They make others obey by the rules then break them at will.
Mar 06th, 2012 - 02:20 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is all coming to a head and it is going to be as ugly as Maxi K.
So MERCOSUR is basically a vehicle to allow Argentina to export to you, but you cannot export anything to Argentina because they don't like that. All the South American States have signed up to this one sided nonsense, and they all sit there agreeing with Argentina's yet again one-sided colonialist policies. Argentina also wants one sided negotiations about the Falklands whilst offering nothing, in a massive one-sided sack of nonsense, just because it want's something.
Mar 06th, 2012 - 03:59 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do these LATAM politicians actually know what is happening? or is this just because of massive massive levels of corruption again? Argentina seems only to do one-sided things, in a festival of die-hard bargaining.
Argentina can stick it to all of Latin America (trade), To Spain (YPF), to the UK (shipping), to Germany and Italy (bonds), to France (utilities), to China (imports), to Russia (leaving them on the tarmac waiting), even to Venezuela (not going along with Chavez in half of what he does).
Mar 06th, 2012 - 06:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It seems the rest of the world has no power over us. Rather weak countries you all are.
Growing numbers of Uruguayan politicians and business leaders are calling for Uruguay to withdraw from Mercosur, or become an associate member (like Chile) rather than a full member. It's true that Brazil has disregarded agreements, but Argentina has done so to a much greater extent. Even the trade unions are eying Argentina mistrustfully.
Mar 07th, 2012 - 04:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0MERCOSUR, from the outside, is like watching Argentina sodomising lots of countries around it of various sizes, and those other countries seeming to love it and agreeing to everything Argentina says.
Mar 07th, 2012 - 11:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0Commenting for this story is now closed.
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