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“After 15 years we are open for business” in Argentina announces US Ex-Im bank
“We're willing to finance all possible export import projects, and at the lowest possible rates to support Argentina in its new process”, Hochberg said The United States Export-Import Bank said it would begin offering financing in Argentina for the first time since the country's economic meltdown in 2001 and 2002. In previous decades the bank provided low-rate loans to support local investment, including the construction of one of the main highways leading into this city.
“After 15 years we are open for business,” said ExIm Bank Chairman Fred Hochberg this week in Buenos Aires where he participated in the Business and Investment Forum, organized by the president Mauricio Macri administration.
“We're willing to finance all possible export import projects, and at the lowest possible rates to support Argentina in its new process”, Hochberg was quoted during a panel at the forum he shared with Commerce Secretary Miguel Braun.
The announcement was confirmed by a release from the Argentine government saying that the Exim bank decision involves both the private and public sectors and responds to an assessment by the US government on different countries' situation.
These assessments reflect improvements in the financial and economic conditions of Argentina, and thus better prospects for honoring debts and credits.
“I am pleased to announce that beginning 21 September the ExIm bank will resume operations in Argentina and this is an auspicious moment for US and Argentina entrepreneurs to work jointly”, said Hochberg. He added that the bank was prepared to provide the needed financing for those associations.
ExIm bank will provide seven-year financing and is willing to assess the possibility of further more complex financing, and at time terms which eliminate or externalize risks for the country, according to Argentina's Finance ministry.
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Read all commentsAfter 15 years we are open for business” in Argentina ??
Sep 15th, 2016 - 01:00 pm 0After 40 years we are open for business in Great Britain,
so they say.
Apart from boosting spending for state universities by 500 million pesos, helping Siemens to invest US$5.6 billion and provide us with 10,000 jobs, releasing the dollar clamp, starting the process of paying off our international debts which was a hole dug ever deeper for him by the previous administration's refusal to comply with their contractual obligations, stopping INDEC from lying about how bad we were doing, paying the pensioners, reducing inflation, reducing the number of power cuts, announcing a US$1.4bn investment in Patagonia, allowing Argentine farmers to export an extra 60%, allowing the “Libertad” to sail to foreign ports without fear of being impounded, stopping the sell-off of Argentina to China, directly causing BP to be more interested in investing in Argentina and causing the US Ex-Im bank to start offering financing in Argentina at lower rates what did Macri ever do for us? ;-)
Sep 15th, 2016 - 05:55 pm 0This is just outrageous!
Sep 15th, 2016 - 09:57 pm 0Why couldn't they have done this a year ago?
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