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Montevideo, April 25th 2024 - 00:41 UTC

Tag: trade

  • Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 09:19 UTC

    Argentine Peso with trading band and zero growth monetary supply policy

    Subject to IMF board approval, financing would no longer be discretionary, but would be readily available to the government for budget support, said Lagarde

    The International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde, speaking at a news conference in New York alongside Argentine Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne, said IMF was “significantly frontloading” disbursements under the program adding the Argentine central bank had agreed as part of the deal to allow the peso currency to float freely and would only intervene in the foreign exchange market in extreme circumstances.

  • Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:40 UTC

    With post-Brexit in mind Scottish Secretary begins a UK trade tour to Uruguay and Chile

    The Scottish Secretary begins a four-day trade mission to South America. He will meet politicians and business leaders in Uruguay and Chile.

    The Scottish Secretary David Mundell started a four-day trade mission to South America, where he will be meeting politicians and business leaders in Uruguay and Chile. Mr. Mundell will be promoting trade links on the visit undertaken on behalf of the UK Government’s Board of Trade, and will be looking into how UK can support new post-EU trade opportunities in South America, promoting Scotland as a great exporter and the UK being open for business.

  • Thursday, September 27th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

    UK’s Trade Envoy in Peru with 15-strong business delegation to launch Joint Task Force

    UK’s Trade Envoy to Peru (R) arrives to inaugurate Joint Task Force

    Mark Menzies, the UK Prime Minister’s Trade Envoy to Peru, Chile, and Colombia, is in Lima this week with a delegation of 15 representatives of British government and businesses, including Arup, MACE, Clifford Chance, Crossrail, UK Export Finance, and the City of London. He will seek to identify new areas to boost UK-Peru trade and investment.

  • Monday, September 17th 2018 - 08:12 UTC

    International support for Argentina's general strike against IMF austerity measures

    A common sight in Argentina: unions and social organizations take to the streets to protest the austerity measures and growing unemployment

    The International Trade Union Conference, ITUC’s affiliates in Argentina, CGT, CTA-A and CTA-T have announced a general strike for 24-25 September in opposition to expected sweeping austerity measures being developed by the government and the International Monetary Fund.

  • Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:53 UTC

    Chinese buyers leave the US soy exporters conference empty handed

    Top importer China bought more than US$12 billion in U.S. soybeans last year, about 60% of U.S. soybean exports

    An annual U.S. soy exporters' conference wrapped up on Wednesday without any known sales to Chinese buyers, in sharp contrast to previous years when billions of dollars of the main U.S. cash crop have been signed over to China in elaborate ceremonies.

  • Friday, August 31st 2018 - 08:41 UTC

    Trump threatens to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization

    “If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News

    President Donald Trump has threatened to withdraw the US from the World Trade Organization (WTO) if the body fails to change the way it treats America. “If they don't shape up, I would withdraw from the WTO,” Mr. Trump said in an interview with Bloomberg News.

  • Tuesday, May 29th 2018 - 08:06 UTC

    Argentina increases export tax on biodiesel to 15% from 8%

    Argentina is one of the world's top providers of biodiesel fuel, exporting 1.65 million tons in 2017, but it has been hit by retaliatory tariffs in recent years.

    The Argentine government is raising an export tax on biodiesel to 15% from 8%, effective July 1, according to a decree published in the official Gazette on Monday. Argentina is one of the world's top providers of biodiesel fuel, exporting 1.65 million tons in 2017, but it has been hit by retaliatory tariffs in recent years.

  • Tuesday, April 24th 2018 - 08:31 UTC

    Japanese manufacturers insist on a single market for its UK investments

    Japan’s ambassador to the UK Koji Tsuruoka, said Japanese firms are watching negotiations and will want to continue to be located in the single market

    Britain will not get a Brexit deal better than the current single market, Japan’s ambassador to the UK has said. Koji Tsuruoka, who took up the role just over a fortnight before the referendum in June 2016, said Japanese firms are watching negotiations and will want to continue to be located in the single market after next March.

  • Saturday, January 6th 2018 - 09:35 UTC

    Europe and Mercosur scheduled to resume trade negotiations this month

    EC fruit and vegetable exports to the Mercosur countries in 2016 amounted to 241.3 million Euro, according to data from the EU Statistical Office, Eurostat

    The European Commission and Mercosur are planning to resume negotiations to reach a new Association Agreement during this month. The Commissioner of the European Trade Commission, Cecilia Malmström, stated that, after the last negotiating round, which took place in early December, and after the attempt to reach an agreement in the framework of the last round of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held from 11 to 14 December, the agreement was very close and would be reached in a matter of weeks.

  • Sunday, April 15th 2012 - 04:34 UTC

    Obama and CFK leave trade issues aside and want to continue as ‘friends and partners’

    The two presidents held a thirty minutes meeting considered successful by Argentine sources

    President Cristina Fernández and US President Barack Obama agreed to work upon trade differences “which in no way conform the central aspects of the bilateral relationship” during their Saturday afternoon half hour meeting with an “open agenda” at the 6th Summit of the Americas hosted by Colombia.