Tag: foreign trade

• Wednesday, July 17th 2024 - 09:23 UTC

  Paraguay experiences record foreign trade in the first half of 2024

  

  Paraguay exports marked a record sum in the first six months of 2024, having totaled, US$ 8,57 billion, the highest in the last five years and also a maximum diversification of markets in 136 different countries. Stats were supplied in a draft paper on foreign trade from the Paraguayan central bank.

• Wednesday, July 10th 2024 - 21:32 UTC

  Paraguay making across-the-border shopping easier

  

  Paraguayan authorities enacted a mechanism whereby foreign shoppers, particularly those living in Argentine across-the-border twin cities, would benefit from tax deductions and other advantages, it was announced this week.

• Friday, June 21st 2024 - 23:04 UTC

  Argentina records historic foreign trade surplus

  

  Argentina recorded a historic foreign trade exchange surplus of US$ 2.656 billion in May, Argentina's Trade Exchange (ICA) reported Thursday in Buenos Aires. The new figures surpassed the previous record of US$ 2.543 billion from May 2009. So far in 2024, Argentina has accumulated a balance of + US$ 8.8 billion.

• Thursday, February 9th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Brazil concerned with the concentration of its foreign trade: few products and volumes mostly to China

  

  In the last ten years, up until 2021, Brazilian export to China grew at a greater rate that those to rest of the world. From 2012 to 2021, China’s importance as an export destination for the five regions in which Brazil is divided grew exponentially, and of the 27 federal states, 21 saw their sales to China grow above the expansion of their sales to the world. In the period, however, the export basket was negatively concentrated around a few primary products.

• Tuesday, September 27th 2022 - 09:46 UTC

  Mercosur partners concentrate most of Paraguay's foreign trade

  

  Paraguay's foreign commerce of manufactured and agro-industrial goods reached US$ 3,383 million during the first eight months of 2022, with a clear predominance of Mercosur partners, points out the country's Ministry of Industry and Commerce.

• Monday, July 25th 2022 - 10:08 UTC

  Downspout threatens Paraguay's foreign trade yet again

  

  Paraguayan exporters have decried over this weekend their latent concern about the Paraguay and Parana rivers' low levels which might affect the grain season in January and February if no improvement is recorded, it was reported in Asunción.

• Friday, July 22nd 2022 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina's foreign trade balance yields deficit in June

  

  Argentina's foreign trade balance came out in the red in June of 2022 for the first time since 2018, it was reported in Buenos Aires by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).

• Tuesday, January 4th 2022 - 17:57 UTC

  Foreign trade yield US $ 15 billion to Argentina's Central Bank in 2021

  

  Foreign trade has meant around US $ 15 billion for Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) in 2021, according to projections reported Monday in Buenos Aires. It became the fifth best surplus so far in the 21st century, despite November's US $ 117 million deficit, the first setback since 2018.

• Friday, November 5th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Third month of Chinese ban on Brazilian beef; speculations as to commercial or technological motives

  

  Brazil's beef exports plummeted during October as a consequence of the ban on purchases from its main client, China. Last October sales dropped to 82,180 tons compared to 162.880 a year ago, according to Secex, Brazil's foreign trade secretariat.

• Saturday, June 12th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Argentina still resists drive to make Mercosur more flexible

  

  A top official from the Argentine Government spoke yet again against a bid from Brazil and Uruguay to make Mercosur more flexible and allow members to broker one-on-one deals with other countries or blocs.