MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Macri announces end of mining export duties campaigning for provincial support
Continuing with his economic reforms Argentine president Mauricio Macri announced on Friday the elimination of export duties for metallic and non-metallic minerals during a visit to the province of San Juan, a key mining district in Argentina. At the announcement were present several other provincial governors with strong interests in the mining industry. Read full article
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Feb 13th, 2016 - 09:21 am - Link - Report abuse 0@1
Feb 13th, 2016 - 01:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Non-metallic minerals doesn't include copper.
Anyway, does Argentina HAVE much copper?
Once Macri gets Congress, and he will, then he has a better chance of implementing real changes.
Wonder if they will try to salvage the Brazilian pot ash plan for Argentina.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 03:21 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Only impediment I see for the mining industry is Moyano forcing companies to use trucks and not trains to ship it.
People in Argentina are pissed about this.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 07:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 04. Mad about lowering taxes to get much needed U$ and jobs?
Feb 13th, 2016 - 07:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@4MM
Feb 13th, 2016 - 08:49 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Do you know what it is about this that is making people in Argentina angry?
Just curious.
@5 The mining companies, most notably Barrick Gold, were already exempt from paying most taxes. The export duties were only 3%. And after the cyanide incident, most people want Barrick Gold out of the country, or to pay exorbitant taxes.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 08:50 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Key paragraph: it's not known whether Macri will implement environmental regulations.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 09:19 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I'm open to bets.
CFK, and peronism, during the last decade allowed the usage of graciars with minin propposes.
Feb 13th, 2016 - 11:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They also vetoed a passed Law to enforce the chemical process of exhausted batteries...Enrique Massot: I don't think Macri would do this job worse than CFK....Do you want to bet?
Unsure how mining is taxed otherwise in Argentina. Does it have a royalty that is payable? The logic of export taxes are to either prevent materials leaving so they can be value-added domestically it because mining companies have no choice and pay because they must export.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 12:59 am - Link - Report abuse 0A royalty is a payment to the government to benefit the whole population for the removal of a resource they own. In Australia they go to the state government. However as Western Australia has now found out, reliance on them hurts when output drops.
10. No one cares skippy.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 02:03 am - Link - Report abuse 0With your limited intelligence Chronic, no one is surprised!
Feb 14th, 2016 - 04:02 am - Link - Report abuse 0Chronic sounds just like wee voice
Feb 14th, 2016 - 08:12 am - Link - Report abuse 0Canuckie idiot chorus.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 08:45 am - Link - Report abuse 0@14
Feb 14th, 2016 - 09:07 am - Link - Report abuse 0thanks for making my point
Notice Chronic repeats everything Yankeeboy says but never actually talks to him.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 09:50 am - Link - Report abuse 0Just like Marcos. Rush in. Repeats nothing much.
No original content. Not even a challenge.
Monkey see, monkey do!
Are all the aussie/canuckies sleeping with the rgs?
Feb 14th, 2016 - 10:43 am - Link - Report abuse 0chronic there aren't enough Argentineans in the world to sleep with people who think you're an idiot.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 12:00 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is a real revelation:
Feb 14th, 2016 - 12:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I thought that the Falklanders were susceptible to a rear guard attack only from labor back in the UK.
Obvious all canadite and ozzers will require scrutiny going forward.
FI - beware your commonwealth allies.
I somehow doubt you had a thought.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 12:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Skippy, you're busted.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 12:51 pm - Link - Report abuse 0You don't believe in anything.
I'm pretty sure that you've never taken a stand for anything other than your own self-interest.
You'd naw your own scrawny ussie leg off to get out of a trap.
Accommodator.
(13) Troy Tempest
Feb 14th, 2016 - 01:32 pm - Link - Report abuse 0I better bow to your superior intelligence and confess...
I'm Chronic.
I'm Voice.
I'm Skip.
My real name is...: Titan von Teufel.
Chuckle chuckle
Come on Skippy, what's a matter?
Feb 14th, 2016 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Don't like the daylight?
Getting your position from your rg bosses?
@8
Feb 14th, 2016 - 03:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Key paragraph: it's not known whether Macri will implement environmental regulations. ”
So children and others will continue to get sprayed with all those pesticides on the genetically modified Soy?
Or has Argentina advanced enough to make protective clothing a legal requirement like it has been for years in the UK?
Come on skippy.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 03:11 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Why don't you undermine the kelpers politically some more?
Gone bashful?
Suck up again to your rg pals.
Thanks for decloaking.
Skip,
Feb 14th, 2016 - 03:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Note that fake Yank Chronic discredits the US by posing as one of them and making outrageous and arrogant statements. This includes attacks based on ethnicity and gender.
He is also doing his best to discredit supporters of the Falklands and the U.K.
Namely, you, me, ElaineB, Capt. Poppy, and others who disagree with his offensive comments.
A lot in common with the ThinkVoice playbook.
(26) Troy Tempest
Feb 14th, 2016 - 04:15 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How did you came to that preposterous idea?
Chuckle chuckle...
I don't need to discredit the ussies or the canadanites.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 04:26 pm - Link - Report abuse 0They've demonstrated a prodigious ability to do that on their own.
Yeahhhh...., bite, fass, attaque Chucky :-)))
Feb 14th, 2016 - 04:36 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Oh and ethnicity:
Feb 14th, 2016 - 04:54 pm - Link - Report abuse 0History is written by the victors.
If you're dissatisfied with recorded history try winning anything and then you have the privilege of memorializing the events there of.
So if you have a problem with attributions with regard to peoples of various nations and what they have done - you have a problem with history.
If you take exception - you're a revisionist.
Your situational ethics put you in direct conflict with most posting on this venue.
Goood dog...
Feb 14th, 2016 - 05:29 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Shut up tobi - you blithering idiot.
Feb 14th, 2016 - 05:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Heel boy..., heel...
Feb 14th, 2016 - 06:23 pm - Link - Report abuse 0From down here its all clear. There is a Chronic lack of intelligent Thinking, folk picking Nostrils and giving Voice to moronic thoughts. Dirty little Think with his dirty little Allan Aldiss books and creepy comments to any female posters. Self evidently he should locked up like Rolf or villified like Jimmy. Yuk!
Feb 14th, 2016 - 08:06 pm - Link - Report abuse 034
Feb 14th, 2016 - 09:45 pm - Link - Report abuse 0+1 good post!
Wow Chronic seems to get quite upset when he suddenly finds that not everyone agrees with him.
Feb 15th, 2016 - 06:19 am - Link - Report abuse 0Indeed his posts are such a mirror of Yankeeboy's that I've yet to find one that offers anything insightful. He's such a shade of beige that he blends into the background. Has been posting on here long?
Limited vocabulary, limited vision, limited opinions and limited intelligence.
Seems Chronic likes to run with the pack. And before you can say Freedom Fries.... you're either with us or against us. Aaaah, for simpletons there is only black and white because they are incapable of postulating beyond someone else's opinion they have latched onto.
Try thinking independently sometime chronic. I promise it won't hurt.
For instance you might even be able to work out why I suddenly stopped posting at 12.29pm GMT.....
@Troy
I've stopped wondering who's a sock puppet. I sometimes think it is easy to confuse the simple incompetence of many posters on here with something more like Think's multiple incarnations. If anyone is using sockpuppets on here then I feel very sorry for them because they are only doubling up the very ineffectiveness they are trying to hide.
From@11 to @36 All backbiting and not adding anything to the article above. Just an aside.
Feb 15th, 2016 - 10:28 am - Link - Report abuse 0And on Mercopress....
Feb 15th, 2016 - 11:40 am - Link - Report abuse 0Quelle surprise!
Oh my the resident 30 y/o perpetual student/philosopher coffee barista is board with others posts.
Feb 15th, 2016 - 01:41 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Bahahaha
haven't we all met tons of smart 30 y/o coffee baristas?
I know for sure your parents cry themselves to sleep.
@37 In other words @37 is no different! Just an observation… :-)
Feb 15th, 2016 - 02:31 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@37 Golfcronie
Feb 15th, 2016 - 03:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Good observation.
@39 and @40, certainly.
A coffeemaker - oh my!
Feb 15th, 2016 - 03:22 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Explains volumes.
And he's a liberal wussie to boot.
Hardly old enough to know anything.
This all fits very well with his ideology or lack of one.
Double shot of reality
Have you ever been anywhere? Built anything? Fought for anything?
lol.
Childish weevil.
@42 “chronic” faker
Feb 15th, 2016 - 06:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0wanting personal information?
Apart from bragging about your (non-existent) wealth and connections in Chicago, we hear nothing about your own qualifications.
Meanwhile, “Skip” as ThinkVoice have dubbed him, has repeatedly informed us of his qualifications.
And he has backed it up with informed useful insights.
Unlike the chronic fake who is mostly confined to making vulgar personal attacks and condemning others for their race, ethnicity, or gender.
You're a fake. You made a challenge to prove you were American and when it was accepted - you wimped out and disappeared.
Puppet.
Faker
43. Skip and Elaine are both trolls.
Feb 15th, 2016 - 07:35 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Down here we have special powers and can see all. WTF are the rednecks here?
Feb 16th, 2016 - 12:13 am - Link - Report abuse 0A “double shot” of reality...
Feb 16th, 2016 - 01:05 am - Link - Report abuse 0I love a witty retort, relative to the conversation...
That was witty for a Yank....
@39 “Oh my the resident 30 y/o perpetual student/philosopher coffee barista is board with others posts.”
Feb 16th, 2016 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0Illiterate Yankeeboy.
Oh Yankeeboy just because you were stupid enough to start using this website under your own actual name with identifiable information doesn't make the rest of us as dumb and naïve as you.
Feb 16th, 2016 - 09:46 am - Link - Report abuse 0As Troy says, and you know, I give out plenty of personal information. And yet am still more intelligent than you because you can't identify me. Even Voice (who is attempting to partake) hasn't in all these years found a single thing to trip me up.
You sell houses not coffee.
Hardly a huge step up.... Houses in a city, I'm guessing. Well I'm studying so I can design cities, improve cities and make cities more liveable. Whose education is more likely to impact the other? So laugh it up, because I can see how uncomfortable someone bettering themselves makes you feel. You actually require someone to look down upon to bolster your self worth.
Chronic has proven my point. He can't think for himself. He just runs with the pack. You have randomly chosen an age and a profession that I am using to put myself through university. Both are wrong.
But Chronic has now seen something that “explains volumes”. Namely how deep he can suddenly stick his tongue between your flabby white cheeks. You would think chronic could see past the facile left/right, liberal/conservative duality considering how centred his lips are on you. I wonder if he thinks your left butt cheek is progressive?
I'm not wedded to some form of predetermined belief imposed on me by either the party I vote for or the country I live in. Limited one dimensional political spectrums are for limited one dimensional thinkers.
If disagreeing with your incessant stream of facile predictions and hateful bile fed by your narrow life experience and even narrower beliefs makes me a troll.... then I'll happily wear that moniker.
PS: Guess that Bachelor of Science didn't teach you the difference between board and bored.
@48 Well said. Yankeeboy is just projecting his self loathing onto you.
Feb 16th, 2016 - 10:10 am - Link - Report abuse 0(48) Skippy
Feb 16th, 2016 - 10:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0Well said..., butt...
NEXT TIME, Try TO keep focused...
This article is about mining... not rimming...
Think
Feb 17th, 2016 - 12:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0It just takes one inconsiderate person and the difference is moot.
I´m all for lower taxes.
Feb 17th, 2016 - 02:07 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Now, what about a more realistic “wealth tax”? because nowadays in Argentina, if you own a basic car and a (very) small apartment you pay that tax.
Wise up Macri.
@48 skip
Feb 17th, 2016 - 03:24 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“I'm not wedded to some form of predetermined belief imposed on me by either the party I vote for or the country I live in. Limited one dimensional political spectrums are for limited one dimensional thinkers.”
Well said
Thanks Troy
Feb 17th, 2016 - 11:16 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems for many in here you must adhere to a single and usually simple message otherwise they go nuclear. I'm left, I'm right, I'm centre.... because no one position has all the 'right' answers.
Also, 20 weeks tomorrow until I leave for Canada.
20
How did you get a work visa...?
Feb 18th, 2016 - 01:00 am - Link - Report abuse 0You did mention working...Skip...
@55 voice
Feb 18th, 2016 - 03:08 am - Link - Report abuse 0such respect for the authorities!
Don't worry yourself, voice.
I'm sure there are Canadians to sponsor him if it's an issue.
Enrique has a karmic debt to pay in that regard.
Then there's always myself or Derke.
Voice
Feb 18th, 2016 - 05:04 am - Link - Report abuse 0I don't recall mentioning work. I am going on exchange for a year.
Students on exchange can work on campus. Otherwise I guess I'll try my luck at cash in hand work. Barista seems a good idea and will be a nice change from my current job. Guess I should look into one of those weekend courses.
Either way my exchange is fully funded. I'm eligible for Austudy, grants and loans. So I won't need to work. But as I'll be learning French and studying urban design it would be nice to actually get out and experience actually living in the city.
@57 Skip
Feb 18th, 2016 - 05:26 am - Link - Report abuse 0I'm sure you'll find Montreal and Quebec City a lot of fun.
You will really enjoy the stone buildings and the history of Old Quebec City, and Montreal is known for its Arts, music scene and nightlife.
Be sure to tell us all about it. Living in Dunoon with no prospect of travel, voice can only visit these places via his computer. Do him a favour and let him live vicariously through you. It might mellow him out a bit.
57
Feb 18th, 2016 - 11:37 am - Link - Report abuse 0“I don't recall mentioning work. I am going on exchange for a year. ”
Let me refresh your memory Skip...
“I hope Montreal is following that trend as I'd much prefer to work as a barista than anything else after I arrive there in July.”
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/02/06/pollack-statement-pleased-to-report-that-enormous-progress-has-been-made#comment429762
This might help...
http://en.mercopress.com/2016/02/06/pollack-statement-pleased-to-report-that-enormous-progress-has-been-made#comment429762
Well thank you for proving I am always consistent.
Feb 18th, 2016 - 12:53 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Seems I still repeat the EXACT same thing even when I forget what I have said.
If you would like even more consistency and a post that predates by 2 months the one you posted:
http://en.mercopress.com/2015/12/04/fifa-corruption-new-round-of-arrests-of-south-american-football-officials#comment423071
“....this little present arrived via email this week:
'It is with pleasure that I write to advise that the Faculty of Architecture, Building, and Planning is happy to support your application for Exchange for two semesters, commencing in Semester 2, 2016.
Please find a copy of your approved study plan attached.'
Now I await acceptance from McGill or if they don't accept me then my other options are University of Toronto and UBC. However McGill is most likely as it is a Universitas 21 and therefore I am given priority.
I have already bought my ticket and will be flying out to NYC on July 7th.”
Seem I did get one thing wrong. I'm flying out on the 8th not the 7th.
Working is a bonus as my entire year is already fully funded. However the more I work the more I save for my gap year after I graduate. Bookmark it. I plan on spending 2018 in South America.
Cat meet pigeons!
Aw shucks voicey. Now what?
Feb 18th, 2016 - 02:37 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Troy
Feb 18th, 2016 - 10:27 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Voice thought (thinks) that we are the same person.
He also didn't believe that I went to Canada last time I was there.
He doesn't believe I am a student! Honestly why would I pretend to be a student for the past 3 years? (remember Nostrils started Uni? That last a month). Then I'll pretend to go to Canada for a year. Pretend to learn French. Pretend to come back and after another semester pretend to graduate. And then pretend to take a gap year?
Why I'm not even pretending to do a Masters or PhD but an undergrad!!!!
I'm not that invested in this site to concoct a lie for 3-6 years. Mind you he did send me the student visa link.
@62 Skip
Feb 19th, 2016 - 09:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0It's all part of voiceThink's usual mining for personal information.
Do you remember his, “I'll place you” threat towards me, in his fit of righteous indignation?
Ah, the ongoing campaign...
Troy
Feb 20th, 2016 - 04:44 am - Link - Report abuse 0I suppose there are people like Yankeeboy that make it so easy, that they expect others to be as naïve and stupid.
Anyway looking forward to Canada. Not sure if I'll get over to Van City but my brother lives outside Calgary so may end up there for Xmas or a birthday or two for my nephew or nieces.
Mind you I haven't been to the Maritime provinces and plan on taking advantage.
I've been to Montreal twice. Once in winter once in summer. So a bit familiar with it. Haven't been further north to Quebec City but will visit a former exchange student I studied with last year there.
So much to do there. But not as much to do here before I leave.
@64 Skip
Feb 20th, 2016 - 06:57 am - Link - Report abuse 0Sounds like a great life you are leading right now!
I'm jealous.
um, so is voice
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