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Not Fight Argentina in MERCOSUR
Montevideo - Uruguay does not plan to appeal
before the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR)
because of the Argentinean government's
decision to enlarge the list of products to
which demands import licenses, stated Friday
in this capital Walter Cancela, director of
MERCOSUR Economic Affairs and Integration in
Uruguay.
Uruguayan Cancela, told the digital version
of newspaper El Pais that Montevideo prefers
to continue managing the topic in a
bilateral way with Buenos Aires.
Cancela clarified that although those
measures have a space in the frame of the
World Trade Organization, they are not
admitted by MERCOSUR, they are only admitted
in very punctual cases.
He commented that in spite of that, the
Uruguayan government does not want at the
moment to put the topic to treatment by
MEROSUR, but managing it among technicians
of the Foreign Affairs Ministry and others.
According to official sources mentioned by
El Pais, the Uruguayan legation carries out
permanent administration steps before the
Subsecretary Office for Administration and
Commercial Politics of Argentina to speed up
the steps for non automatic licenses, which
are the ones delaying most.
The informers pointed out that the
Argentinean government promised to put on a
update with those permits, some of which
already spent more than 100 days to be given
when, according to regulations, they should
not go over 60 days.
The decision of Buenos Aires comes creating
a deep concern in the Uruguayan export
sectors and are already compromising the
profitability of the three more important
companies of the country in the branches of
leather tanning, the textile and plastic
products.
In October, after the explosion of the world
economic crisis, the Argentinean government
began to demand import non automatic
licenses that can delay up to 60 days on
being delivered to the managers requesting
them.
The governments of Uruguay and Brazil
coincide in the point that measures like
these go against the main objective of
MERCOSUR, to consolidate enlarged market
among the members of the block.
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