Argentina

• Friday, February 28th 2020 - 06:02 UTC

  Argentine Patagonia lamb and mutton admitted into the Chinese market

  

  China approved the necessary sanitary protocols and authorized the sale of lamb, mutton and sub-products from sheep bred in Argentine Patagonia, according to Argentina's Agriculture ministry.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 09:20 UTC

  Argentine president Fernandez announces meeting with his Uruguayan peer Lacalle Pou

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez held a very positive phone conversation on Wednesday with Uruguayan president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou during which they analyzed the bilateral relation and the regional integration agenda.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  The Challenges of Argentina’s Debt Renegotiation

  

  By Jose Antonio Ocampo (*) – By affirming that Argentina's public-sector debt is unsustainable, the International Monetary Fund has taken a critical step toward resolving the country's long-running crisis. Moving forward, one hopes that the Fund will realize its own role in the latest crisis and follow its own advice on when to pursue capital-market liberalization.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 07:57 UTC

  Mild recovery of Argentine industrial activity during January

  

  The argentine industrial activity stopped sliding last January after two full years of contraction and managed a 4.8% growth over a year ago, according to the latest review of the industry by the Foundation of Latin American economic research, FIEL. However, the overall Industrial Production Index ended the twelve months of 2019 with a 4.6% fall compared to 2018.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentine farmers with a “deep sense of deception”, ahead of grains export tariffs

  

  Argentina's Ministry of Agriculture suspended on Wednesday the registration of agricultural exports until further notice, it said in a statement, a move that traders said likely foreshadowed a steep increase in grains export tariffs.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Argentina Forensic Anthropology Team nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize

  

  The Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team, EAAF, a non-profit scientific NGO, was nominated for the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize for its investigative work into human rights violations in Latin America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

• Wednesday, February 26th 2020 - 09:42 UTC

  Argentina implements additional controls for Covid-19 at Ezeiza airport

  

  The Argentine government has started to implement additional controls to identify potential cases of coronavirus in flights from Italy, where the number of Covid-19 infections keeps increasing. Additionally, the first case confirmed in South America has been a Brazilian businessman who for work reasons visited the north of Italy.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Argentine ambassador in US meets Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

  

  Argentine ambassador in Washington Jorge Argüello held a meeting on Monday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, with the purpose of strengthening bilateral relations and which was described as “highly productive”.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:59 UTC

  Argentina will allow IMF to inspect its accounts under Article IV consultations

  

  Argentina agreed to start consultations with the International Monetary Fund that could lead to a new financing program, days after the global lender said the country’s debt situation had become “unsustainable”.

• Monday, February 24th 2020 - 07:13 UTC

  UK interested in partnership with Argentina to develop the railway system

  

  Ambassador Mark Kent said the United Kingdom wants to be a partner of Argentina in such areas as the development of railways, following a meeting of a British trade mission with the head of the country's Railways infrastructure Administration, ADIFSE, Ricardo Lissalde.