Tag: Axel Kicillof

• Wednesday, July 1st 2015 - 02:57 UTC

  US opens its market to Argentine fresh beef imports; lemons still pending

  

  Argentina announced that the United States APHIS (Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service) has allowed fresh beef imports from Argentina, lifting a 15-year ban which Buenos Aires had always considered 'unjustified' and bluntly 'protectionist' and as such had claimed before the WTO. In the same vein Argentina also anticipated it expected a similar decision from the US regarding Argentine lemons.

• Saturday, June 20th 2015 - 09:16 UTC

  Buenos Aires/Moscow close ties are “a fact, not a wish”, says Argentine minister Kicillof

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof speaking from Moscow said ties between Buenos Aires and Russia were “a fact, not a wish” praising the bilateral “natural understanding” and “complementation”, achieved by the two partners in economic, energy and trade affairs.

• Saturday, May 30th 2015 - 09:01 UTC

  Ford announces investments to boost car production in Argentina

  

  Ford Argentina announced investments in the country for some 220 million dollars following a meeting between President Cristina Fernández and local and regional executives from the US corporation.

• Friday, May 15th 2015 - 07:15 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez comes out strongly in defense of minister Kicillof

  

  President Cristina Fernandez has questioned accusations against Economy Minister Axel Kicillof over his alleged YPF monthly salary of 400.000 Argentine Pesos (approx 35.000 dollars).

• Tuesday, May 12th 2015 - 06:25 UTC

  Argentina reacts to hedge funds attempt to block a fresh debt emission

  

  Argentina has launched a stinging attack on hedge funds attempting to block payment on last month's Bonar 24 debt issuance, stating that the petition shows the 'vulture funds' desperation following the successful auction.

• Saturday, May 9th 2015 - 09:57 UTC

  Argentina will file complaints against speculative funds in Belgium

  

  Economy Minister Axel Kicillof confirmed the Argentine government will be filing a complaint against speculative or 'vulture' funds for seeking to seize the accounts of the Argentine embassy in Belgium, and the Argentine mission before the EU in Brussels, adding hedge funds are the most “despicable and repugnant” of the world financial system.

• Friday, May 8th 2015 - 07:37 UTC

  Argentina denies as 'inexact' any embargo on embassy bank funds in Belgium

  

  The Argentine government in a late release on Thursday strongly denied an 'inexact information' related to alleged embargos by speculative funds (or vulture funds) on bank accounts from the Argentine embassy and its staff, in Belgium, and said that the attempts to freeze 'embassy funds' are but a new extortion attempt and a clear procedure abuse which could be sanctioned by Belgian tribunals.

• Saturday, April 25th 2015 - 05:41 UTC

  Argentine economy picking up boosted by agriculture; manufacturing continues downfall

  

  Economic activity in Argentina expanded 1.4% in February compared to the same month last year, boosted by the agricultural sector and a hike in consumption, making it the highest increase since January 2014, according to the latest release from the country's stats office, Indec.

• Tuesday, March 31st 2015 - 05:44 UTC

  Unions bring Argentina to a halt over income tax and promise more industrial action

  

  Argentine Labor unions will carry out more strikes after a 24-hour walkout Tuesday, if the government doesn’t heed their demand for less tax pressure, a union leader said on Monday.“The measures of force are going to increase if (the government) continues with the provocations and without giving us a response to our demands,” trucker union boss Pablo Moyano said to a local radio station.

• Monday, March 30th 2015 - 06:47 UTC

  Citibank suspended in Argentina “until it revokes agreement with Griesa and holdout funds”

  

  Economy Minister Axel Kicillof said the suspension of Citibank Argentina, ordered by the National Securities Commission (CNV) financial watchdog, will stay in place until the bank revokes its agreement not to appeal US Judge Thomas Griesa’s ruling that interest payments on Argentina's restructured local law bonds could not be processed if the bank was allowed to make two one-off payments to help it exit its local custody business.