Uruguay

• Tuesday, September 20th 2011 - 08:53 UTC

  Best Angus bull at Uruguay’s Prado Show sold for 45.000 dollars to Argentina

  

  Sales in Uruguay’s main livestock show, --the 2011 edition of Expo-Prado--, totalled 765.000 dollars and 245.5 animals which is a significant improvement over the previous year (in numbers and dollars) but also because Uruguayan genetics was exported to Mercosur neighbours.

• Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 07:13 UTC

  Marines involved in alleged sexual abuse of an Haitian civilian back in Uruguay

  

  Uruguayan marines returned to Uruguay to stand trial for the alleged abuse of an 18-year-old man while on the UN peacekeeping mission in Haiti. They arrived Friday at Carrasco Airport and then taken to an undisclosed location.

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 19:05 UTC

  Uruguay’s second quarter slowdown surprised economic consultants’ estimates

  

  Uruguay’s main economic consultants admitted they missed, and by quite a margin, their Uruguayan economy performance estimates for the second quarter which according to the Central bank only expanded 0.5%.

• 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 - 07:14 UTC

  Uruguay’s GDP expands 4.8% in second quarter buoyed by domestic demand

  

  Uruguay’s GDP expanded 4.8% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the central bank said Wednesday on its website.

• Tuesday, September 13th 2011 - 05:16 UTC

  BPU Meat Uruguay responds to UK Hereford beef labelling controversy

  

  On September 10th MercoPress reproduced a piece from Meat Trade News Daily (UK farmers claim Uruguay’s ‘Hereford’ meat labelling is ‘misleading’) in which the UK National Farmers Union, NFU called on Asda supermarkets to change its labelling policy after it emerged that its meat marked ‘Hereford Prime Beef Sirloin Steak’ is sourced 6,800 miles away in Uruguay.

• Saturday, September 10th 2011 - 06:29 UTC

  Uruguay offered cheaper power from private wind-farm developers

  

  Uruguay could enjoy 1.3 billion dollars of wind farms in the next four years after developers said they could provide electricity cheaper than conventional energy sources.

• Saturday, September 10th 2011 - 05:27 UTC

  UK farmers claim Uruguay’s ‘Hereford’ meat labelling is ‘misleading’

  

  The UK National Farmers Union, NFU, has called on Asda supermarkets to change its labelling policy after it emerged that its meat marked ‘Hereford Prime Beef Sirloin Steak’ is sourced 6,800 miles away in Uruguay.

• Saturday, September 10th 2011 - 00:34 UTC

  India and Uruguay sign agreement to avoid double taxation

  

  India and Uruguay signed this week a Double Taxation Avoidance Agreement (DTAA) for avoidance of double taxation and prevention of fiscal evasion with respect to taxes on income and capital.

• Friday, September 9th 2011 - 18:49 UTC

  Four seriously injured when Korean fishing vessel catches fire in Montevideo

  

  Four crewmen seriously injured and a total loss was the result of a fire that broke out Thursday night in a Korean flagged fishing vessel docked in the port of Montevideo and was still burning Friday morning.