Uruguay

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 08:44 UTC

  Latam will try to define a common stance ahead of the G20 summit in France

  

  Latin American countries will be meeting in Uruguay in two weeks time to define a common stance on the international crisis for the coming G20 summit that will be taking place early November in France.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 05:11 UTC

  Honour to Steve Jobs, one of the great transformers of modern society

  

  Steve Jobs, who transformed the worlds of personal computing, music and mobile phones, died on Wednesday at the age of 56 after a year-long battle with pancreatic cancer.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 02:57 UTC

  Preliminary reports show Uruguay could have on shore recoverable gas reserves

  

  The chances for Uruguay of having significant commercial reserves of natural gas and oil are on the increase according to recent reports from US Energy and Geology agencies and published in the Montevideo press.

• Thursday, October 6th 2011 - 02:16 UTC

  Uruguayan auto assembly industry exempt of Brazil’s IPI 30% tax increase

  

  In the framework of the so called Plan Maior, Brazil adopted measures to stimulate its industry with the purpose of increasing productivity and containing competition from Chinese produce in its domestic market.

• Monday, October 3rd 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Uruguay/Argentina agree to hake spring ban and limit annual catch to 50.000 tons

  

  Uruguay and Argentina agreed on a three months ban for the hake fisheries in the jointly shared maritime zone with the purpose of protecting juveniles and contribute to the conservation of the resource.

• Saturday, October 1st 2011 - 05:50 UTC

  Achieving investment grade is “not critical” for Uruguay, says Economy minister

  

  Achieving investment grade in the current global scenario is “not critical” for Uruguay since the country has sufficient financing and operates in world markets as “if it had a better rating than it actually has”, said Economy minister Fernando Lorenzo.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 16:27 UTC

  Latin America remembers and praises links with Beijing on China’s National Day

  

  With China's National Day hours away, (October first), countries across Latin America pledged to further deepen ties with China, one of their biggest trade partners.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 06:13 UTC

  Chilean/Swedish group ensure 1.35billion dollars to finance pulp plant in Uruguay

  

  The Chilean group Arauco, an affiliate of the pulp and paper Copec Enterprises announced on Thursday that together with its European partner they had subscribed 1.354 billion dollars in loans for the construction of a pulp plant in Uruguay.

• Friday, September 30th 2011 - 06:05 UTC

  Uruguay leaves basic rate unchanged at 8%; inflation remains above target

  

  Uruguay’s Central bank kept its benchmark interest rate unchanged as policymakers focus on bringing inflation back to target in anticipation of possible impacts from a global slowdown.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 18:33 UTC

  Uruguay begins negotiations to mitigate Brazilian trade restrictions

  

  A Uruguayan government delegation will begin talks on Tuesday in Brazil to address the latest restrictions imposed by Mercosur largest member and which threaten several manufacturing sectors, particularly the auto industry, said Foreign Affairs minister Luis Almagro.