Tag: foreign trade

• 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.

• Monday, June 7th 2021 - 09:05 UTC

  Cardoso and Lula da Silva support Argentina in the Mercosur tariff reduction controversy

  

  Former Brazilian presidents Fernando Henrique Cardoso and Lula da Silva signed a statement in which they support Argentina's position in the Mercosur controversy regarding a flat unilateral tariff reduction as sponsored by president Jair Bolsonaro, with the backing of Uruguay, but rejected by President Alberto Fernandez.

• Saturday, June 5th 2021 - 09:47 UTC

  Uruguayan ministers travel to Paraguay to discuss flexibilization of Mercosur

  

  Uruguay's Economy Minister Azucena Arbeleche and Foreign Minister Francisco Bustillo travelled to Paraguay Friday to discuss with the local administration of President Mario Abdo Benítez new steps towards flexibilities Mercosur's rules.

• Friday, June 4th 2021 - 09:55 UTC

  Lacalle Pou wants Uruguay to compete in an unprotected foreign trade scenario

  

  Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou said Thursday during the virtual Export Day celebrations that “we like to play on a large court, and not on a small, protected one.”

• Wednesday, June 2nd 2021 - 08:57 UTC

  Argentina's trade with Brazil at its highest since 2018

  

  A report released Tuesday showed that Argentina's trade with neighbour Brazil has reached its highest level since 2018, exports reaching US $ 4.2 billion until May, 33% better than in the first five months of last year, but 6% lower than the same period of 2019.

• Saturday, March 27th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentina's exports rise 9.1% year-on-year, but for smaller volumes

  

  Argentina's National Institute for Statistics and Census (INDEC) Friday announced the country's exports increased 9.1% since March 2020, while imports went up 16.4% for the same period of time, for a combined foreign trade worth of US $ 8,488 million, 12.1% above last year's figures.

• Wednesday, March 10th 2021 - 08:49 UTC

  Chinese foreign trade booming in the first two months of 2021

  

  China's total goods imports and exports expanded 32.2% year on year to 5.44 trillion Yuan (some US$ 838.16 billion) in the first two months of 2021, sustaining growth momentum in previous months, official data showed. Exports jumped 50.1% while imports rose 14.5% in Yuan terms, according to the General Administration of Customs (GAC).

• Friday, October 9th 2020 - 09:36 UTC

  Chile's foreign trade improving as September exports pick up

  

  Chile's overseas trade reached almost US$ 93,5 billion, between January and September this year, an 11% drop year on year, the president Sebastián Piñera government announced on Thursday.