Mercosur

Friday, June 8th 2012 - 01:35 UTC
China interested in a trade agreement with Mercosur reveals Uruguay

China has offered Mercosur to consider the possibility of negotiating a free trade agreement revealed Uruguay, when the South American block is going through one of its worst moments ever so distant from the integration process pledges of 1991.
Friday, June 8th 2012 - 01:19 UTC
Uruguay hopes China will build and finance a deep-sea port on the Atlantic

Uruguay’s long standing dream of building a deep-water port in the east of the country could become a reality in coming days when China’s Prime Minister Wen Jiabao visits the country, according to the government financed newspaper La Republica.
Tuesday, June 5th 2012 - 23:59 UTC
Brazil/Argentina Mercosur differences can be overcome with ‘greater production integration’

Trade differences between Mercosur leading partners Brazil and Argentina will be overcome with negotiations and promoting productive integration, coincided business people, diplomats and academics from both countries at a seminar in Rio do Janeiro.
Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 04:43 UTC
If lucky at the end of the labyrinth, CFK might bless you with a few bucks

The following is an instructive of the steps to follow in the labyrinth set up by the Argentine bureaucracy to have access to a limited amount of US dollars. The instructive should help clear some of the latest measures implemented by the administration of President Cristina Kirchner and was published on Tuesday by The Buenos Aires Herald and Ambito Financiero.
Wednesday, May 30th 2012 - 04:22 UTC
GLOBE convening first World Summit of Legislators at Rio, ahead of Earth summit

How many times have government leaders pledged to reduce carbon emissions or tackle the accelerating loss of biodiversity? If statements and pledges were all that it took to fix the biggest global challenges, the world would not be faced with dangerous concentrations of greenhouse gases, shrinking rainforests and extinctions at up to 1,000 times the natural rate.
Monday, May 28th 2012 - 23:12 UTC
Mercosur raises maximum allowed tariff, 35% on 100 imported goods, says Brazil

Brazil raised to the maximum the common external tariff, AEC, that Mercosur charges on imported goods from out of the zone. The decree was published in Monday’s edition of the Official Gazette and includes a hundred goods.
Friday, May 25th 2012 - 07:01 UTC
Three former presidents admit Mercosur has failed and has Uruguay ‘trapped’

Three former Uruguayan presidents recommended the current administration that without abandoning Mercosur, it should look at major trade blocks associations but at the same time a strong self criticism is needed because maybe the problem is not in Mercosur but in Uruguay.
Friday, May 25th 2012 - 01:21 UTC
Argentina attacks WTO and US on trade issues at OECD ministerial round

In an offensive to counter recent attacks on Argentina’s restrictive trade policies, Foreign Minister Hector Timerman expressed at the World Trade Organization, WTO, his government’s concern with the current course of global negotiations which face the serious risk of abandoning the development goals agreed when the launching of the current Doha Round of negotiations back in 2001.
Tuesday, May 22nd 2012 - 06:09 UTC
Argentina proposal to increase Mercosur common external tariff from 22% to 35%

Argentina is planning to propose its fellow Mercosur members to increase the common external tariff, CET from the current 22% to 35%, when they meet at the next summit in Mendoza. Argentina currently holds the pro tempore chair of the group and at the coming summit the helm will be transferred to Brazil.
Monday, May 21st 2012 - 03:34 UTC
Investors will opt for Uruguay and its legal system, says Spanish ambassador

The seizure of YPF by Argentina can be expected to have a positive repercussion for Uruguay since the country has an enviable legal system and keeps to the rules of the game, said the new Spanish ambassador in Montevideo, Roberto Varela.