Tag: trade barriers

• Monday, June 6th 2011 - 06:56 UTC

  On Monday Customs delayed back-log of Argentina made-cars should be in Brazil

  

  Argentina and Brazil seem to be again on the path of normalizing bilateral trade following the mid May spat that triggered a round of technical exchanges in Buenos Aires and a final meeting at ministerial level in Brasilia. On Monday, allegedly all the Argentine cars delayed in the border will have been cleared into Brazil.

• Friday, June 3rd 2011 - 02:02 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil agree on terms to unlock the bilateral trade conflict

  

  Argentina and Brazil agreed Thursday to abide by the 60-day retention period applied to products affected by non automatic tariff trade barriers and accelerate trade in the agricultural sector with the purpose of overcoming the conflict that erupted mid May and had virtually frozen bilateral operations.

• Tuesday, May 31st 2011 - 08:22 UTC

  Industry ministers meet in Brasilia to address Argentina/Brazil trade differences

  

  Argentine Industry Minister, Debora Giorgi, and her Brazilian counterpart Fernando Pimentel will meet this Thursday in Brasilia in order to discuss a possible solution for the trade conflict currently affecting Brazil and Argentina

• Monday, May 30th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Ex Brazilian minister calls for treating Argentina gently, “not with a cannon ball”

  

  Former Brazilian Industry and Foreign Trade Minister Miguel Jorge decided to weight in on the bilateral trade conflict currently affecting Brazil and Argentina, and surprisingly came out in defence of the Cristina Fernández de Kirchner administration, comparing President Rousseff’s move to impose non-automatic licenses on car and auto-parts imports as “firing a cannon ball.”

• Thursday, May 26th 2011 - 07:10 UTC

  Argentine/Brazil trade talks stalled but ‘technical negotiations’ were good

  

  Brazilian Industry Secretary Alessandro Teixeira said on Wednesday that no progress has been made so far regarding the trade impasse over Brazil’s import delays for Argentine cars and auto parts, but denied any crisis with Argentina since negotiations are on-going.

• Wednesday, May 25th 2011 - 07:20 UTC

  Brazil/Argentina agree monthly trade meetings and gradual liberation of licences

  

  Brazil and Argentina agreed to monthly meetings on commerce, Argentina said, as the neighbouring countries try to overcome tensions that flared earlier this month over car imports.

• Thursday, May 19th 2011 - 07:13 UTC

  Brazil’s top industry organization head calls Argentine minister “cry-baby”

  

  While Argentine and Brazilian officials are involved in a ‘constructive dialogue’ to overcome trade disputes the head of the powerful Sao Paulo Federation of Industries, FIESP, Paulo Skaf said that Argentine Industry minister Debora Giorgi tends to “over-cry” the restrictions imposed on car imports to Brazil.

• Monday, May 16th 2011 - 15:51 UTC

  Brazil justifies import licences for the auto sector, and insists they are not targeted on Argentina

  

  Brazilian Development, Industry and Foreign Trade minister Fernando Pimentel justified trade barriers imposed last week on the import of cars, a measure which was strongly criticized by the Argentine government.

• Monday, June 28th 2010 - 22:19 UTC

  Greece wants Mercosur/EU talks conditioned to end of Argentine trade barriers

  

  On the eve of the resumption of European Union/Mercosur trade talks, the EU has again complained about Argentina’s ‘protectionist’ measures on some EU agriculture produce and Greece is demanding discussions be conditioned to an end to barriers.