Argentine trade balance falls 17,6% year-on-year in March
Argentina exported goods worth 4.320 billion dollars in March and imported inputs worth 3.175 billion, resulting in a surplus of 1.145 billion, INDEC reported.
Chilean customs intercepts multimillion-dollar cigarette smuggling
Operations at the El Loa and Quillagua outposts prevent fraud of $1.464 billion pesos (US$ 1,7 million dollars). Photo: Chilean Customs
Importation of 682 hybrid and electric cars authorized
The National Directorate of Industry approved the purchase through Provision 212/2020.
Mercosur agreements to reduce tariffs on herbicide inputs and pesticides come into force
The three agreements approved tariff reduction measures requested by Argentina, and were celebrated on March 4 at a meeting held in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo.
The CAC calls for the formation of a committee for the gradual return to activity
The entity stated that "just as there is a health emergency caused by the new coronavirus, there is another evil affecting the country, consisting of commercial and economic paralysis."
G20 pledges to avoid disrupting global food supplies
Agriculture and food ministers of the Group of 20 held a virtual meeting on Tuesday, April 21, 2020.
ECLAC predicts a 5,3% contraction in Latin America in 2020 due to COVID-19
On Tuesday, April 21, 2020, ECLAC Executive Secretary Alicia Bárcena presented Special Report COVID-19 No. 2.
Coronavirus threatens to unleash another global food crisis
Global agricultural supplies are affected as some countries restrict grain exports and increase their purchases for reserves
Beijing Customs facilitates resumption of construction of Universal Beijing Resort
Beijing also known as Peking or Beijing.
WHO and WTO heads call for information sharing on COVID-19
“Our highest priority is to protect life, and those efforts can be hampered by unnecessary disruptions to global trade and supply chains,” the heads of the WTO and WHO stressed. Photo: WTO
"Production for export" and "specific industrial processes" are exempt from isolation.
The measure was announced through Administrative Decision 524/2020.
Chile increases imports of critical supplies to combat Covid-19
"The joint work of Customs and the Public Health Institute is an example of the joint and timely work that all State institutions must have in order to confront this pandemic," said the Undersecretary of Finance.
