Business / Trade in Argentina
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/13
Defying doomsayers concerned about Israel losing diplomatic clout, Benjamin Netanyahu is headed to Bogota, Argentina, and Mexico -- part other Latin American nations.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to depart for Latin America and the US on Sunday evening, marking the fifth time in some 15 months he will embark on ground-breaking trips to nations at no time before visited by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/10
Latin America is “hungry for Israeli technology,” a senior Foreign Ministry official said Tuesday ahead of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s historic visit to the region next week.
Deputy Director General at the Foreign Ministry’s Latin America and Caribbean Division, Modi Ephraim, said the visit will have historic significance, as it will be the initial by a sitting Israeli prime minister.
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ISRAEL, 2017/09/10
Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will leave on Sunday evening for a working visit to Latin America.
During his trip, Netanyahu will visit Argentina, Colombia and Mexico. This will be the initial visit by a sitting Israeli Prime Minister to Latin America.
Paraguayan President Horacio Cartes will travel to Buenos Aires to meet Netanyahu. Netanyahu leaves for trip to Argentina, Mexico, and Columbia, then meets world leaders at UN General Assembly in New York.
Accompanying Netanyahu is a delegation of Israeli businesspeople from the fields of agriculture, water, communications and energy. Members of the delegation will hold commercial meetings with their local counterparts. Eonomic events will as well be held in Argentina and Mexico, led by Netanyahu and the Argentine and Mexican heads of national.
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ARGENTINA, 2016/12/24
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ARGENTINA, 2016/12/03
China's president, Xi Jinping, has embarked on a week-long visit to Latin America that will include national visits to Ecuador, Peru and Chile. Mr Xi's trip comes instantly on the heels of a US presidential election that has called the next of US-Latin America relations into question, and highlights China's emergence as a key trade and investment partner for the region.
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ARGENTINA, 2015/11/25
Brazil's trade minister said on Monday that the election of pro-business candidate Mauricio Macri as Argentina's next president is good news for trade relations between the South American neighbors.
Macri, the center-right mayor of Buenos Aires, ended additional than a decade of leftist Peronist policy in Sunday's election next promising to overturn the free-spending populism of outgoing President Cristina Fernandez.
"All the signs are positive. (Macri) reaffirms the vision that Brazil is a strategic partner, he backs the position that Mercosur be additional open to other international networks," Trade Minister Armando Monteiro told Reuters while on an official trip to Chile's capital Santiago.
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ARGENTINA, 2015/06/23
Argentine Economy Minister Axel Kicillof speaking from Moscow said ties between Buenos Aires and Russia were “a fact, not a wish” praising the bilateral “natural considerate” and “complementation”, completed by the two partners in economic, energy and trade affairs.
“Tighter ties between Russia and Latin America and Russia and Argentina are not a wish, but a fact. At the same time as you analyze completed years of bilateral trade, you will find a surprising increase of 1,000%, one that has grown the majority in Argentina’s foreign trade,” Kicillof said in Russia where he is currently attending the Saint Petersburg International Economic Forum 2015 (SPIEF 2015).
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KAZAKHSTAN, 2014/11/03
Kazakh citizens may visit Argentina without a visa for up to 30 days from November, the Kazakh foreign ministry said.
The similar entry rules apply to Argentine citizens arriving in Kazakhstan.
An agreement on mutual trips of citizens entered into force between the governments of Argentina and Kazakhstan on November 1, the ministry reported.
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ARGENTINA, 2014/06/15
Argentina reacted strongly and with a letter in harsh terms to Uruguay's decision to authorize Finland's UPM-Kymmene pulp mill to increase annual production by 8%. The letter addressed by Foreign minister Hector Timerman to his peer Luis Almagro informs Argentina will take the case to international tribunals and is currently 'reassessing' bilateral relations.
Timerman said he became aware of the decision that allows UPM to increase production to 1.365 million tons per annum with the release presented by the Uruguayan delegation to the River Uruguay Administrative Commission. The UPM pulp mill has been built on the shared, and jointly managed, river that acts as a natural border between Uruguay and Argentina.
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ISRAEL, 2014/03/01
The government of Cristina Fernández is understood to have taken the measure next becoming frustrated with the lack of evolution completed in a controversial investigation into the 1994 Amia bombing in Buenos Aires, according to the Jewish Chronicle.
The Argentine government has suspended dialogue with Iran, heralding a shift in policy that coincides with improved relations with Israel that includes a visit this month by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
Last year, the two nations agreed to a memorandum of considerate which included a joint truth commission to examine the attack on the Amia Jewish community centre in the Argentine capital.
