Tag: Mercosur

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 17:03 UTC

  Mercosur is not working, good relations between two presidents ‘are not enough’

  

  President Jose Mujica admitted to Uruguayan manufacturers and farmers that with recurrent Argentine and Brazilian obstacles to trade “it’s very hard to make Mercosur function” and good relations between presidents “are not enough”.

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 07:21 UTC

  Paraguay accuses Argentina of ‘systematically ignoring” Mercosur

  

  The Paraguayan delegation before Mercosur Parliament, Parlasur, accused Argentina of “systematically and permanently ignoring the Asuncion Treaty” (the founding charter of Mercosur).

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 22:40 UTC

  Argentina to propose temporary increase of some import tariffs in Mercosur framework

  

  Argentina is considering a temporary increase of tariffs on some imports, following on Brazil’s steps, but is also thinking of a formal proposal to its Mercosur partners.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 22:05 UTC

  Mercosur and Mexico auto industry agree to jointly compete with Asia

  

  Mercosur and Mexico signed an agreement which virtually liberates all bilateral auto industry trade and opens prospects for joint undertakings world wide. The event took place in Montevideo, administrative capital of Mercosur.

• Thursday, September 8th 2011 - 05:49 UTC

  Mercosur/Asia soy-market forum project brings together leading experts

  

  Experts from South America, US, Europe, India and China will be discussing next week in Rosario, Argentina the possibility of an Asia-Mercosur grains and oilseeds market in which soybeans will be playing the leading trade role.

• Tuesday, September 6th 2011 - 06:31 UTC

  A China/Mercosur trade agreement would be “something extraordinary”

  

  A free trade agreement, (FTA), between China and Mercosur could be “something extraordinary”, said Argentine Foreign Affairs minister Hector Timerman who next Thursday begins a political and business mission in Beijing.

• Wednesday, August 31st 2011 - 21:21 UTC

  US grain farmers furious with Argentina and Canada advance in the Colombia market

  

  Argentina has rapidly displaced the US as the main supplier to Colombia of corn and in near future wheat, with volumes soaring from 99.000 tons in 2007 to over 2.2 million tons currently, points out Agrimoney.

• Monday, August 29th 2011 - 08:34 UTC

  Brazil loosing industry to Mercosur members with cheaper costs and lower taxes

  

  Brazilian business and manufacturing leaders are demanding a “fiscal harmonization” of the Mercosur block since other full members are attracting a growing number of Brazilian companies to those countries lured by cheap energy and qualified labour.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 03:26 UTC

  “Chavez’ Venezuela has no chance of joining Mercosur” says Paraguay Congress

  

  Paraguay’s vote in support of Venezuela’s full integration to Mercosur seems more distant than ever as was confirmed by the country’s Senate Foreign Relations committee to Brazilian ambassador Eduardo Dos Santos.

• Friday, August 26th 2011 - 03:22 UTC

  Mercosur/Israel trade deal comes into effect following Argentina’s signature

  

  A free trade agreement between Israel and Argentina is set to come into effect on September 9, the Israeli Industry, Trade and Labour Ministry announced this week.