Argentina
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26-jun-2012 Alto Nivel
Argentina cancela el TLC automotriz con México
El Gobierno de México dijo el lunes que Argentina le notificó que abandonó un acuerdo de libre comercio automotriz bilateral, que en los últimos años resultó deficitario para el país sudamericano.
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14-may-2012
Brazil targets Argentina with trade licenses
Brazil on Monday escalated a growing trade fight with Argentina by increasing the bureaucratic obstacles for importing about 10 perishable products including apples, raisins, and potatoes, a senior Brazilian government official told Reuters.
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2-may-2012
Argentina: Towards a possible new withdrawal from ICSID?
As long as States, like Argentina and many others, accumulate a large amount of cases against them or obtain sistematically wrong results before ICSID arbitrators — which is the rule, with a very few exceptions — it is possible that the list of ICSID withdrawals will increase in the Americas.
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25-abr-2012 Affaires Stratégiques
L’Espagne suggère d’exclure l’Argentine des négociations entre le Mercosur et l’UE
Depuis l’annonce de la présidente argentine du projet de nationalisation du groupe YPF, filiale de l’espagnol Repsol, un froid diplomatique s’est installé entre Madrid et Buenos Aires — une situation qui semble compromettre les négociations de libre-échange entre l’UE et le Mercosur.
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24-abr-2012
EU’s De Gucht: Argentina Risks Jeopardizing Trade Ties
The European Union has warned Argentina that it risks jeopardizing trade ties over Buenos Aires’ plans to expropriate a unit of Spanish oil company Repsol YPF SA (REP.MC) and impose a series of import restrictions and that Brussels stands ready to take retaliatory action.
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20-abr-2012
Argentine YPF move threatens to sour EU-Mercosur trade talks
Argentina’s move to nationalize a 51% stake in the country’s YPF oil company from Spain’s Repsol this week may hamper efforts to finalize free-trade talks between the European Union and the Mercosur trade bloc later this year, European officials said Friday.
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18-abr-2012 Euronews
Une crise diplomatique sans précédent entre Madrid et Buenos Aires
La présidente argentine Cristina Kirchner a annoncé ce lundi un projet de loi d’expropriation de la plus importante compagnie pétrolière du pays, YPF. Il s’agit d’une filiale du groupe espagnol Repsol. La Commission Européenne n’a pas tardé à réagir.
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1ro-abr-2012
’We can’t even manage to send a lemon to the US,’ CFK
President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner questioned US president Barack Obama’s recent decision to suspend trade benefits for Argentina, while complaining that “we can’t even manage to get one of our lemons to enter the US market.”
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29-mar-2012 ICTSD
US suspends Argentina from trade preference scheme
Trade frictions are on the rise between Washington and Buenos Aires, after US President Barack Obama announced that the US would be suspending Argentina from its Generalised System of Preferences programme for failure to pay arbitration awards in two disputes involving US investors.
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26-mar-2012
Obama says to suspend trade benefits for Argentina
U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday he was suspending trade benefits for Argentina because of the South American country’s failure to pay more than $300 million in compensation awards in two disputes involving American investors.
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21-mar-2012
US eyes suspending trade benefits for Argentina
The United States could soon suspend trade benefits for Argentina because of that country’s failure to pay awards in two long-running investment disputes with U.S. companies, a U.S. trade official said on Monday.
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17-feb-2012 The Economist
Come and get me: Argentina is putting international arbitration to the test
Argentina has never threatened to quit ICSID. Its government insists it is open to honouring the awards. The only delay, it says, is that the claimants have not brought their rulings to a local court for collection.
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5-feb-2012
Argentina new imports’ restrictions come into effect; claims from Mercosur
Argentina’s controversial new import restrictions came into effect on Wednesday as part of the legislation on the trading sector which gives the government bureaucracy more powers to control and restrict imports.
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5-nov-2011 Dow Jones
Argentina readies corn exports to China
Argentina hopes to start exporting corn to China in a few months but is still finalizing details of a bilateral market access agreement, a senior Argentinian official said Thursday.
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12-sep-2011
Argentina joins regional free trade pact with Israel
Argentina became the last of five South American countries to sign onto a regional free trade agreement with Israel.
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18-ago-2011 El Espectador
Santos llegará a Argentina para ampliar ’nueva etapa’ bilateral
El mandatario colombiano se alista para dejar Chile, en donde logró ampliar la cooperación y el comercio con el país austral.
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15-ago-2011
Argentine ratifies trade Mercosur-Israel trade agreement
Argentina ratified this week the free trade agreement reached between Mercosur and Israel, the first to be signed by the South American block with an outer zone party.
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9-ago-2011 Reuters
US firm eyes trade case to force Argentina payment
Azurix Corp plans to ask the Obama administration for help in recovering more than $230 million it says it is owned by the government of Argentina. It would be the first time a US company has used the "Section 301" trade law to pressure a foreign government to pay an award decided by an arbitrator in an investment dispute.
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23-jul-2011 La Arena
El ALBA, un alineamiento regional que desafía el paradigma mercantilista
Un interesante debate se llevó a cabo para propiciar la incorporación de Argentina al ALBA. Ese espacio regional se propone un cambio radical de paradigmas.
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16-abr-2011 Buenos Aires Herald
EU threatens to file lawsuit against Argentina over ’protectionism’
The European Union’s top trade negotiator, Karel de Gucht, accused Argentina of being “the great obstacle” in an association agreement between the EU and the Mercosur, and threatened to take the case before the WTO.
