LatinNews Regional Monitor: Brazil & Southern Cone - 16 May 2017

Argentina: The federal tax authority (Afip) has announced that it has signed a new bilateral customs agreement with Canada. The new agreement will help to combat customs offenses via the establishment of an information exchange platform between Afip and Canada’s Border Services Agency. The announcement came as the Canadian government said that it had launched an internal consultation process over the establishment of a free trade agreement (FTA) with the Southern Common Market (Mercosur) trade bloc comprising Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay, and Venezuela.

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