Mercosur

• Monday, December 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile can apply punitive tariffs to US.

  The World Trade Organization gave Chile authorization to impose punitive duties on US exports because of Washington's failure to repeal the so-called Byrd amendment that has helped the US steel industry.

• Monday, December 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Trade disputes between Argentina and Brazil

  Nine Latin American presidents renewed in Brazil their pledge for economic cooperation, despite enduring disputes and tariff barriers between Argentina and Brazil

• Monday, December 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Bank of New York named Argentina's debt agent

  The Argentine government reappointed the Bank of New York as the clearance and settlement agent for its mammoth restructuring of $102.6 billion in defaulted debt, the Economy Ministry said in a statement last Friday.

• Monday, December 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Chile: Breaking News.

  Headlines:
  Commercial exploitation of kelp; Long term Chilean Antarctic planning; Magallanes eolian digital map.

• Monday, December 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Argentine dairy giant invests in Uruguay

  One of Argentina's main dairy cooperatives will invest six million US dollars in setting up a plant in Uruguay, its first overseas experience.

• Monday, December 20th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Mercosur estimates 100 million tons soybean crop

  Mercosur is rapidly becoming the world's main supplier of soybeans and the combined plantation of the four country members could be indicating a new production record of 100 million tons in the 2004/05 season.

• Sunday, December 19th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Scant progress on ?Post-Kyoto'.

  The EU came to Buenos Aires wanting to narrow differences with the US ? the main source of heat-trapping gases ? and the large developing economies excluded from Kyoto like China and India.

• Saturday, December 18th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Almirante Irizar leaves for Antarctica.

  Next Monday December 20 the Argentine Navy icebreaker “Almirante Irizar” will be leaving from Buenos Aires for Ushuaia and Antarctica officially beginning the four months 2004/05 season.

• Saturday, December 18th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Santiago - Punta Arenas with Boeing 767/300

  Lan Chile began a daily flight between Santiago and Punta Arenas with a wide body Boeing 767-300, one of the most modern aircrafts and with the largest passenger and freight capacity in the southern Chile route

• Saturday, December 18th 2004 - 20:00 UTC

  Stroke Hospitalizes Ex-Dictator Pinochet

  Gen. Augusto Pinochet was hospitalized after suffering a stroke Saturday; one day after an appeals court delayed a decision on whether to uphold the former dictator's indictment and house arrest on human rights charges.