Argentina

Thursday, October 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina bans sale of Made in China 48 milk related products

Argentina joined a long list of Latinamerican countries which have banned the import of Chinese milk and related products such as sweets, chocolate bars, cookies, instant tea and coffee with powder milk, etc.
Thursday, October 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina gets tough on hake fisheries conservation

Argentina has expanded and declared permanent the ban on common hake (Merluccius hubbsi,) fishing in the following quadrants of the South Atlantic: the northern half of 4160, 4260, 4261 and 4262.
Thursday, October 2nd 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine lamb and mutton exports 21 m. USD in 8 months

Argentine lamb and mutton exports increased 4% in volume and 21% in US dollars during the first eight months of the year according to the latest release from Senasa, the agro-food sanitary and quality service.
Wednesday, October 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine farmers back on the roads for six-day protest

Argentine farmers announced on Tuesday they will take to the roads again temporarily suspending grain exports and limiting beef exports to protest scant progress in talks with the government on how to help small- and medium-scale producers who are suffering financially.
Wednesday, October 1st 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina's debt spread at its highest since June 2005

Argentina's sovereign debt spreads topped 1,000 basis points on the JPMorgan EMBI+ index 11EMJ on Wednesday as investors worried about the country's ability to keep servicing debt in coming years, amid tighter credit conditions.
Tuesday, September 30th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina opens path to accord with bond holdouts

Argentina signed an agreement with three banks to attempt to restructure debts to sovereign bond holders who rejected a 2005 settlement over a historic default, the government announced Monday.
Monday, September 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Clue witness ready to testify in suitcase money scandal

María del Luján Telpuk, the former Buenos Aires airport security police officer who last year (August 2007) caught US-Venezuelan businessman Guido Antonini Wilson attempting to smuggle into Argentina a suitcase with 800,000 dollars, said that she was “afraid” and ratified that she was willing to have a face-to-face confrontation with Antonini.
Monday, September 29th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentina budget “fails to consider” new global scenario

Argentine private consultants have warned that the 2009 budget bill fails to take into account the new international scenario and lacks a comprehensive approach to inflation, country risk and economic slowdown”.
Friday, September 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Nazi suspect, Argentine immigrant tried in Serbia

Serbia's war crimes prosecutors launched proceedings this week against a Hungarian citizen, who had immigrated to Argentina after World War II and returned to Hungary in 1996, on charges that he participated in mass killings of Jews and Serbs during Nazi occupation.
Friday, September 26th 2008 - 21:00 UTC
Argentine farmers plan 2 day strike and march on Bs. Aires

Argentine farmers announced this week they are back on the protest trail: a two-day strike has been programmed for next October 6 and two days later they will march on the capital Buenos Aires.