by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Jul 22, 2021 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Argentina, Doing business, General, Manufacturing, Mercosur
We often encourage clients and those attending our training and capacity building sessions to look at Latin America laterally. One of the ways of doing this, is to focus on regions rather than countries. This is particularly the case for big and high complex markets...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | Jul 22, 2021 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Argentina, General
Our Associate Consultant, Matías Sara, is an agricultural technician originally from Santa Fe, Argentina. He has over 20 years’ farming experience and has worked also as a consultant for farmers, agricultural associations, manufacturers and representatives of foreign...
by Gabriela Castro-Fontoura | May 18, 2021 | Agrifood, cannabis, forestry, Argentina, General
The government in Argentina announced last night (they have a habit of announcing meaningful measures at about 10pm) a ban on beef exports for 30 days. The objective of this measure, they say, is to help contain inflation, which reaches a staggering 50% (ish). The...
by Gabriela | Dec 1, 2019 | Argentina, Mercosur, Paraguay, Uruguay
Shortly after announcing the Mercosur-EU trade agreement, the lesser-known but equally important Mercosur-EFTA agreement followed. Businesses in the European Free Trade Association area (Iceland, Liechtenstein, Norway, and Switzerland), will soon start benefiting from...
by Gabriela | Dec 1, 2019 | Argentina
Argentina ( * sighs * ) Where do we start? A new government, led by Alberto Fernández, will take office on 10th December. Beyond the hype, the don’t-cry-for-me-Argentina-it-takes-two-to-tango cliché headlines and all that, what does this really mean for overseas...
by Gabriela | Sep 19, 2019 | Argentina, Doing business, Uruguay
Over a year ago, I posted about the duty free shop on the ferry between Argentina and Uruguay. A Twitter favourite, let me share with you some more pictures and reflections of a more recent trip onboard Francisco, the ferry named after the Pope, and its rather...
