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Mercosur: What next? | Art by Joaquín Temes The Mercosur bloc could be on the verge of historic changes, after member nations agreed this week to debate a potential liberalisation of its trade rules at a key meeting next month Talks over a reduction in the common external tariff could also be on the table. The news was announced by the Foreign Ministries of Argentina and Uruguay jointly last Monday following a virtual extraordinary meeting to broach these two issues presented by the government...

Sputnik VIDA. | Art by Joaquín Temes The Sputnik VIDA vaccine, manufactured by local pharmaceutical firm Laboratorios Richmond, will be used "in principle for the Argentine State," company chief Marcelo Figueiras has confirmed. Speaking after his company and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced this week that Argentina had become the first country in Latin America to begin production of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Figueiras expressed his delight at the “good news” and...

“All of the oxygen that is produced today in Argentina has as an absolute priority to supply hospitals,” said Kulfas. Argentina is cancelling all exports of oxygen to cope with growing domestic demand, Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas announced Tuesday. The demand for oxygen for medical use grew between 300 and 330 per cent in recent days, which triggered the alarms in the national government. Kalfas held a meeting at Casa Rosada with Cabinet Chief Santiago...

Photos representing sectors of Argentinas economy. | NA One year on from Argentina’s strict Covid-19 lockdown, a second wave of infections looms on the horizon, this time accompanied by the circulation of new, more contagious strains of the virus and a slow vaccination rate.  The cocktail threatens to impact on the economic recovery, yet Productive Development Minister Matías Kulfas has declared that “it will not be necessary to resort to closures like last year." He says industry has "le...

Sputnik VIDA. | Art by Joaquín Temes The Sputnik VIDA vaccine, manufactured by local pharmaceutical firm Laboratorios Richmond, will be used "in principle for the Argentine State," company chief Marcelo Figueiras has confirmed. Speaking after his company and the Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) announced this week that Argentina had become the first country in Latin America to begin production of the Sputnik V coronavirus vaccine, Figueiras expressed his delight at the “good news” and...

Bolivias domestic beef market needs to be adequately supplied before any surplus can be sold abroad, Gonzales said. The Government of Bolivia Thursday decided to halt all beef exports to prevent international demand from leading to an increase in price domestic consumers could not afford, Minister of Rural Development and Lands, Remmy Gonzales announced. “We have already talked with the sectors and we have already taken the measures to suspend exports while the domestic mar...

Argentinas government Thursday created a registry of beef exporters among other measures to curb under-invoicing, which authorities fear has been going on for a while now.

Share this article Share this article GUELPH, ON, and RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil, April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ - PlantForm Corporation, PlantPraxis Biotecnologia and Bio-Manguinhos/Fiocruz (Health Ministry of Brazil) today announced a collaborative research and development agreement to develop a biosimilar pembrolizumab for the Brazilian market. The original antibody drug, pembrolizumab, is widely used in immunotherapy to treat a variety of cancers including melanoma, lung cancer, head and neck canc...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - Matías Kulfas, Argentinas Minister of Productive Development, admits that Mercosur is going through "a tense moment". Partners such as Uruguay, Paraguay and Brazil want more flexibility and lower external tariffs, and the last meeting of the organization a few days ago concluded with tensions. "It is not true that Argentina refuses to reform Mercosur," says Kulfas, during an interview with El Pais in his ministerial office. "We want reform, but with time and in a pragm...

The Argentine government has extended until 31 December the current sanitary emergency first decreed on 12 March 2020, just days ahead of the social, preventive and mandatory distancing to contain the effects of the pandemic.