LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 05 May 2017

Argentina’s President Mauricio Macri this week became the second Latin American head of state, after Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski, to meet his US counterpart Donald Trump in the White House. The meeting, on 27 April, elicited an immediate reward. Macri had requested that Trump remove a longstanding ban on lemon imports from Argentina. Shortly afterwards the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that the restrictions, in place since 2001 due to concerns about threats posed by pests and disease, would be lifted from 26 May.

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