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Foreign trade of Argentina includes economic activities both within and outside Argentina especially with regards to merchandise exports and imports, as well as trade in services.

Colonial and early history

Argentina's primary exports in colonial times were largely limited to salted beef due to the fact that beef would not stay fresh during trans-Atlantic shipping - a problem which similarly precluded most grain exports until the 1870s.[1][2]

Modern history

Argentina developed an agro-export model where they were highly dependent on the external sector, exporting commodities mostly to Western Europe. Much as colonial elites tried to emulate European styles, a wave of European investment and immigration so reshaped local culture and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th centuries (primarily in the Pampas area), that visitors often compared Buenos Aires with Paris.[2]

Agriculturally and thinly populated, Argentina recorded trade surpluses for most of the period between 1900 and 1948, including a cumulative US$1 billion during World War I and US$1.7 billion during World War II.[3] But record taxes on grain exports imposed by the administration of President Juan Perón (1946-55) and an increasing need for costly fuel and machinery helped result in a nearly-unbroken string of trade deficits between 1949 and 1962.[4]

Файл:Muelle de La Boca.jpg
Port call on Buenos Aires' southside wharf (La Boca), circa 1888. Financed mostly with British capital, massive dock works touched off a foreign trade boom that reshaped the previously isolated Argentine economy.

Perón and, most notably, President Arturo Frondizi (1958-62), encouraged foreign as well as local investment in energy and industry as part of a developmentalist policy of import substitution industrialization. Trade deficits in the 1950s initially limited development due to the need for expensive machinery and supplies and a shortage of foreign exchange. But drawn to an economy that provided Latin America's highest standard of living, domestic and foreign investors responded, industrial production more than doubled, and the country's trade position became modestly positive throughout the 1963–79 era, even as domestic demand grew.[3][4]

Policies of "free trade" financial deregulation pursued by Argentina's last dictatorship led to a sudden, record deficit in 1980 and, by 1981, a mountain of bad debts and financial collapse. The climate of slack domestic demand that prevailed in Argentina throughout the 1980s resulted in a cumulative US$38 billion in surpluses from 1982 to 1991;[3] this brought the economy little direct benefit, however, as much of this was deposited abroad during that era of interest payment burdens and financial instability.[5]

Economy Minister Domingo Cavallo enacted the Convertibility Law of 1991, pegging the monetary value of the Argentine peso to the United States dollar. The fixed exchange rate (1 peso to the dollar) allowed for a macroeconomic stabilization. Taking advantage of this low exchange rate, on the lower tariffs on imports and on the reappearance of credit after the free trade liberalization measures taken by President Carlos Menem's administration, Argentine firms and consumers tripled capital goods purchases from 1990 to 1994, while depressed auto sales rose by fivefold. The influx of imported machines and supplies helped the modernization of the country's industrial base; but it negatively impacted its trade balance, which accumulated US$22 billion in deficits from 1992 to 1999;[3] the current account deficit, which would include growing foreign debt interest payments and deficits in trade in services, reached a record deficit of US$14 billion in 1998 alone.[6]

Relying on sizable foreign investment inflows to balance the current account, these did not suffice and the Central Bank was again forced to resort to borrowing to protect the peso's value against such pressure (mostly by floating bonds, then the most sought-after in the developing world). Recession helped lead to a US$1 billion surplus in 2000 and another US$6 billion in 2001;[3] but it was too little, too late. Buffeted by generalized global instability and mounting capital flight, international markets massively shorted Argentine bonds in the second half of 2001 and on December 23, following a spate of unpopular crisis measures, the Argentine government declared a default on US$85 billion of its bonds - the largest sovereign debt default in history.[7]

Crisis and recovery

Immediately after the collapse of the Argentine economy at the end of 2001 and the devaluation of the peso in 2002, imports fell over half and Argentina's trade surplus soared to over US$16 billion,[3] providing for the first current account surplus since 1990. As recovery ensued and the exchange rate stabilized around 3 pesos/dollar, exports (mainly soy, cereals and other agricultural products, as well as machinery and fuels) grew steadily.

Imports began recovering sharply in 2003, as both the purchasing power of the peso and domestic demand increased, and, despite this, from 2003 to 2011 the nation's merchandise trade balance recorded a cumulative US$115 billion in surpluses.[8] These surpluses were bolstered as much by growing exports as by a marked recovery in terms of trade for Argentina, which by 2010 had improved 40% over the level prevailing in the 1990s.[8] The nation's perennial trade deficit in manufactures widened during this expansion, however, and exceeded US$30 billion in 2011.[9] Accordingly, the system of non-automatic import licensing was extended in 2011,[10] and regulations were enacted for the auto sector establishing a model by which a company's future imports would be determined by their exports (though not necessarily in the same rubric).[11] Domestic production grew to supply the majority of the Argentine market in a number of important rubrics historically dominated by imports amid these changes, including diverse manufactures such as information technology, major appliances, footwear, and farm machinery.[12][13][14]

A collapse in global commodity prices in 2014 led to trade deficits for most of the 2015-18 period,[3][15] culminating in a record current account deficit in 2017 of US$31 billion and an ensuing foreign debt crisis. The 2018 crisis, however, pushed imports down by 37% from 2017 to 2020, yielding US$50 billion in cumulative trade surpluses from 2019 to 2022[3] despite a 92% recovery in imports from 2020 to 2022 - though practically nil in total current account surpluses, due to higher foreign debt interest outlays.[6]

Trade in services has historically been in deficit for Argentina, as both travel and foreign debt interest outlays often far outstrip services income. Annual services deficits averaged around US$5 billion in the 1980s and 1990s (mainly due to foreign debt payments) - but after the 2001 crisis, fell to around US$1 billion annually until 2007. Services deficits rose steadily afterward to a record US$9.7 billion in 2017, then easing to US$3.6 billion by 2021 - but jumping to around US$7 billion in 2022, largely as a result of renewed outbound travel by Argentines.[6]

Argentine foreign trade and current account balances

Argentine goods and services trade balances, and foreign debt, 1970-2022 (million US$):

Year Goods
exports
Goods
imports
Balance Services
exports
Services
imports
Interest Current
account
balance
Foreign
debtШаблон:Refn
1970 1773 1694 79 424 437 223 -159 5171
1971 1740 1868 -128 457 459 256 -389 5564
1972 1941 1905 36 458 380 273 -223 6028
1973 3266 2235 1031 557 489 317 721 6429
1974 3931 3635 296 861 696 298 126 7628
1975 2961 3947 -985 743 571 460 -1284 7723
1976 3916 3033 883 836 564 465 667 9278
1977 5652 4162 1490 1117 730 370 1289 11445
1978 6400 3834 2566 1314 1414 405 1834 13276
1979 7810 6700 1110 1791 2553 493 -537 20950
1980 8021 10541 -2519 2744 3483 947 -4767 27157
1981 9143 9430 -287 2402 3107 2965 -4714 35657
1982 7625 5337 2288 1901 1858 4403 -2357 43634
1983 7836 4504 3332 1676 2017 4983 -2402 45069
1984 8107 4585 3523 1921 2125 5273 -2391 46171
1985 8396 3814 4582 1846 2077 4879 -953 49326
1986 6852 4724 2128 1865 2438 3934 -2858 51422
1987 6360 5818 542 2112 2397 3927 -4237 58324
1988 9135 5322 3813 2210 2465 4467 -1762 58303
1989 9579 4203 5376 2381 2646 5759 -1308 65511
1990 12353 4077 8276 2599 2978 5724 1764 62974
1991 11978 8275 3703 2736 3743 4828 -2735 65229
1992 12235 14872 -2637 2737 3855 3679 -8361 62972
1993 13118 16784 -3665 3127 4273 3608 -8153 72425
1994 15839 21590 -5751 3364 7143 4774 -10981 87524
1995 20963 20122 841 3826 7262 6375 -5104 101462
1996 23811 23762 49 4405 7952 7353 -6755 114423
1997 26431 30450 -4019 4599 8984 8826 -12116 129964
1998 26434 31377 -4944 4854 9298 10347 -14465 147634
1999 23309 25508 -2200 4719 8830 11329 -11910 152563
2000 26341 25280 1061 4936 9219 12352 -8955 155015
2001 26543 20320 6223 4627 8490 12162 -3780 166272
2002 25651 8990 16661 3495 4956 10414 8702 156813
2003 29939 13851 16088 4500 5693 9999 8073 164778
2004 34576 22445 12130 5288 6619 9909 3076 171473
2005 40387 28687 11700 6634 7626 6816 5055 114255
2006 46546 34154 12393 7911 8674 5322 6499 109504
2007 55980 44707 11273 10046 11027 5856 6049 125366
2008 70019 57462 12556 11424 13646 5722 5421 125859
2009 55672 38786 16886 10545 12537 4527 7254 119267
2010 68174 56793 11382 12817 14621 4820 -1623 134011
2011 82981 73961 9020 14497 17649 4960 -5340 145154
2012 79982 67974 12008 14247 18344 5077 -2138 145722
2013 75963 74442 1521 13680 19009 5058 -13124 141491
2014 68404 65736 2668 13396 18038 5431 -9179 144801
2015 56784 60203 -3419 13214 19029 5107 -17622 152632
2016 57909 55852 2057 13425 21876 7443 -15105 181432
2017 58645 66938 -8293 15506 25202 10904 -31151 234549
2018 61782 65483 -3701 15342 24277 16157 -27084 277827
2019 65115 49125 15990 14802 19646 17360 -3492 278489
2020 54884 42356 12528 9492 12028 6055 2688 270694
2021 77934 63184 14751 9499 13101 7135 6645 267004
2022 88446 81523 6923 14487 21396 8174 -4290 276473

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Commercial relationships

Mercosur

Mercosur—the customs union that includes Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay—entered into force January 1, 1995; Bolivia, Chile, and Venezuela joined the pact subsequently as associate members. Cooperation between Brazil and Argentina (historic competitors) is the key to Mercosur's integration process, which includes political and military elements in addition to a customs union; Brazil accounts for 74% of Mercosur GDP and Argentina about 23%. Argentine intra-Mercosur trade rose dramatically from US$4 billion in 1991 to US$23 billion in 1998; it declined to US$9 billion during the 2002 crisis, but recovered quickly and reached US$44 billion in 2011 (28% of the Argentine total).[19] More than 90% of intra-Mercosur trade is duty-free, while the group's common external tariff (CET) applies to more than 85% of imported goods. Remaining goods will be phased into the CET by 2006.

Brazil's higher level of industrialization and production capacity, as well as other economic asymmetries, have been a source of tension with Argentina. Following the 2001-02 crisis, Argentina's recovering industrial sector has pressured the government to obtain restrictions (especially quotas) on Mercosur's free trade regulations, in order to protect their growth from what they see as disloyal competition from their larger partner to the north. Exports to Brazil helped lessen the impact of the crisis on the industrial sector somewhat, though Argentina's intra-Mercosur trade yielded it a cumulative US$15 billion deficit from 2004 to 2008. A renewed devaluation of the peso contributed to a US$700 million surplus with Mercosur in 2009, though deficits of US$1.8 billion were recorded in 2010 and 2011.[19]

Argentine trade with fellow Mercosur nations reached US$35 billion in 2022, and as in most years remained in deficit for Argentina with US$15.8 billion in exports and US$19.3 billion in imports. Mercosur buys 68% of Argentine exports of motor vehicles and auto parts, and these made up three-eights of total exports to the bloc in 2022.[20]

China

Trade with China was negligible until 1992; it later grew rapidly and by 2010, China became Argentina's second largest trading partner. Argentine exports to the Asian giant are mainly soy, beef, barley and, increasingly, lithium carbonate - while imports are mainly industrial and consumer goods.[8] Modest Argentine surpluses with China turned into deficits in 2008, however, and anti-dumping measures enacted subsequently triggered a Chinese boycott of its top Argentine import, soy oil, in 2010. Following trade negotiations, soy oil purchases from China resumed in 2011.[21]

Argentina's merchandise trade deficit with China has mostly grown since then, reaching US$9.5 billion on US$17.5 billion in imports by 2022; China is now Argentina's leading source of imports by nation, with 21.5%.[20]

These deficits have, in recent years, been partly financed by China itself by way of foreign exchange swaps. The two central banks first established these swap facilities in 2017, and expanded them to 130 billion yuan ($19.2 billion) in December 2018. In November 2022, Argentina and China agreed to add another 35 billion yuan (US$5.2 billion).[22]

China has become the largest investor in Argentina's growing lithium mining sector,[23] which by 2030 is projected by JPMorgan Chase to become the second-largest in the world - only behind Australia.[24]

United States

The United States replaced the United Kingdom in the 1920s as both the leading source of manufactures and of imports overall.[4] The U.S. share of imports and exports remained relatively stable at around 20% and 10%, respectively, until 2002; these proportions declined steadily afterward and by 2010, were approximately half the historical percentages. The U.S. has largely maintained a moderate trade surplus with Argentina, however.[25] This surplus reached US$3.7 billion in 1998. The Argentine crisis led to modest bilateral deficits for the U.S. in 2002-05 - but U.S. surpluses returned in 2006, growing to a record US$6.6 billion by 2014 before stabilizing.[26]

Petrochemicals, gold, silver, and aluminum are the leading Argentine exports to the U.S., and wine the leading Argentine consumer good in the U.S. market; Argentine imports are in turn mainly industrial.[27] Fresh Argentine beef was exported to the U.S. market in 1997 for the first time in over 60 years, and in 1999 its export quota of 20,000 tons was filled. Beef exports to the U.S. were suspended in August 2000 when Argentine cattle near the border with Paraguay (whose authorities refuse to vaccinate cattle against highly contagious hoof and mouth disease) were discovered to have anti-bodies for the infection. The quota was reinstated in early 2002 and has since averaged 28,000 tons.[28]

The Obama administration suspended Argentine participation in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) in 2012, citing a failure to pay arbitration payments awarded by the World Bank's ICSID to a number of U.S. firms adversely impacted by the 2002 devaluation of the peso.[29] The GSP benefit (US$18 million in 2011) is relatively minimal, equaling 0.4% of Argentine exports to the U.S. of US$4.2 billion.[25]

U.S.-Argentine trade has nevertheless grown - albeit slowly - and Argentina remains one of a few countries with which the U.S. routinely maintains a merchandise trade surplus. Mutual trade reached nearly US$20 billion in 2022, with US$6.9 billion in U.S. imports from Argentina and US$13 billion in exports to Argentina.[26]

Trade in services with Argentina has been especially advantageous for the U.S., with Argentina's services deficit with the U.S. reaching US$5 billion in 2019[30] - the entirety for that year.[6]

European Union

Argentina has a thriving and longstanding trade relationship with the European Union, as well as close historic and cultural ties dating to the colonial era that spanned 300 years until independence in 1816.

European investment and immigration dramatically reshaped Argentina after 1880 - and the British Empire in particular dominated Argentine trade with over a third of the total until World War I, buying mainly meats and cereals in exchange for a wide variety of consumer and industrial goods.[4]

Argentine trade with Europe gradually declined in relation to other partner nations and regions. But the EU is still Argentina's third largest trading partner (after Brazil and China) and accounted for 13% of total Argentine trade in 2022, or US$22 billion - nearly balanced between exports to the EU (US$10.8 billion) and imports (US$11.1 billion).[20] Argentina's main exports to the EU are processed agricultural products (38%), chemical products (21%) and fish and seafood (8%). The EU exports to Argentina mainly manufactured products, such as machinery and appliances (28%) and chemical products, including pharmaceutical products (29%).

Trade in services, which was relatively stable until 2019, was temporarily affected during the COVID pandemic - to later rebound. In 2020, the EU imported services from Argentina worth 1.6 billion euros, while it exported services worth 3.5 billion euros.

Argentina is also an important investment destination for European companies, particularly Spain. The stock of investments from the EU was 35.8 billion euros in 2020, making the EU, as a bloc, the top foreign investor in the country. Some 21 EU member states have signed agreements for the promotion and reciprocal protection of investments with Argentina, and as of 2022, the European Investment Bank had a portfolio of loans amounting to € 655 million in Argentina (including loans under preparation).[31]

Intellectual property issues

Argentina adheres to most treaties and international agreements on intellectual property. It is a member of the World Intellectual Property Organization and signed the Uruguay Round agreements in December 1993, including measures related to intellectual property. However, extension of adequate patent protection to pharmaceuticals has been a highly contentious bilateral issue.

In May 1997, the U.S. suspended 50% of Argentina's GSP benefits because of its allegedly unsatisfactory pharmaceutical patent law. In May 1999, The U.S. Government initiated consultations under World Trade Organization procedures to address these inadequacies and expanded the consultations in May 2007.

Merchandise exports and imports

Foreign trade by type of product

Argentine foreign trade in 2022 by type of product (million US$):

Product class Exports Imports Balance
Meats and offal 4082 155 3927
Seafood 1795 97 1698
Dairy 1690 37 1653
Maize, wheat, and other cereals 15575 48 15527
Soy and other oilseeds 4351 2234 2117
Other crops 2250 881 1369
Vegetable oils 9170 307 8863
Fruit and vegetable preparations 813 101 712
Wine and spirits 948 111 837
Animal fodder (mainly soy) 13249 184 13065
Tobacco 326 53 273
Other agricultural goods 930 813 117
Fuel and lubricants 6836 12783 -5947
Other minerals 398 1178 -780
Pharmaceuticals 913 3182 -2269
Perfume and cosmetics 480 475 5
Fertilizers 65 2743 -2678
Cleansers, polish, etc. 196 477 -281
Other chemicals 4790 8100 -3310
Rubber and plastics 1309 5066 -3757
Leather, hides, and furs 493 161 332
Forestry products 685 1481 -796
Textiles, apparel, and footwear 487 2540 -2053
Glass, stone, ceramics, etc. 177 735 -558
Gold, silver, jewelry, and geodes 2680 187 2493
Iron and steel 1202 3083 -1881
Aluminum 781 534 247
Other metals 60 1425 -1365
Machinery and parts 1594 20215 -18621
Motor vehicles and parts 7945 7888 57
Aircraft and other transport equipment 252 257 -5
Precision equipment 110 1947 -1837
Other manufactures 1814 2045 -231
Шаблон:Flagicon Total 88446 81523 6923

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Argentine exports by type of product, 1993-2022 (million US$):

Category 1993-96 97-2000 2001-04 2005-08 2009-12 2013-16 2017-21 2022
Total Exports (annual) 18433 25629 29177 53233 71702 64765 63672 88446
Soy 2764 3639 6155 11872 16875 18338 17575 24868
Corn 743 1155 1110 2147 3598 4240 5942 9549
Oil, Gas,
Petrochemicals
2236 3630 5753 8219 7272 4393 4438 9297
Motor Vehicles & Parts 1300 2759 2144 5341 8850 7968 6602 8678
Wheat 986 1380 1307 2159 2333 1372 2868 4724
Beef & Leather 1782 1654 1422 2493 2398 2099 3288 4268
Gold & Silver 20 90 115 495 1907 1994 2691 2959
Fruit & Wine 622 885 892 1865 2479 2342 2302 2041
Sunflower 947 1123 662 1036 1043 654 896 1891
Fish & Seafood 841 901 849 1119 1324 1567 1944 1823
Barley 128 174 141 361 1054 1210 862 1608
Dairy 189 328 348 712 1081 1080 892 1436
Others 5875 7911 8279 15414 21488 17508 13372 15304

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Foreign trade by leading export destinations

Argentine foreign trade in 2022 by leading export destinations, and chief exports and imports with each (million US$):

Partner Exports Imports Balance
Шаблон:Flag 12665 16030 -3365
Шаблон:Flag 8022 17516 -9494
Шаблон:Flag 6675 10330 -3655
Шаблон:Flag 4938 778 4160
Шаблон:Flag 4555 1849 2706
Шаблон:Flag 3570 886 2684
Шаблон:Flag 3230 1240 1990
Шаблон:Flag 2444 299 2145
Шаблон:Flag 2112 476 1636
Шаблон:Flag 2020 729 1291
Шаблон:Flag 1733 1260 473
Шаблон:Flag 1600 181 1419
Шаблон:Flag 1576 1276 300
Шаблон:Flag 1494 408 1086
Шаблон:Flag 1430 473 957
Шаблон:Flag 1324 1959 -635
Шаблон:Flag 1187 1094 93
Шаблон:Flag 1102 1711 -609
Шаблон:Flag 1092 586 506
Шаблон:Flag 1067 1678 -611
Шаблон:Flag 951 864 87
Шаблон:Flag 944 548 396
Шаблон:Flag 929 429 500
Шаблон:Flag 921 237 684
Шаблон:Flag 884 2719 -1835
Rest of the world 19981 15967 4014
Шаблон:Flagicon Total 88446 81523 6923

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Exports by province

Argentine exports in 2022 by province and type (million US$):

Province Exports Per
capita
Growth
from 2010
Raw
materials
Agricultural
manufactures
Industrial Energy
Шаблон:Flag 33025 1880 44.4 7286 10590 11730 3419
Шаблон:Flag 19163 5388 29.1 2768 13420 2844 131
Шаблон:Flag 12852 3230 54.8 5783 5069 1976 25
Шаблон:Flag 2912 4008 787.8 35 7 15 2855
Шаблон:Flag 2575 4269 -22.1 547 111 685 1232
Шаблон:Flag 2242 6723 38.7 385 44 1598 215
Шаблон:Flag 1912 1340 22.8 1082 681 148 0
Шаблон:Flag 1601 795 -5.6 160 1069 251 121
Шаблон:Flag 1545 1466 232.3 1471 74 0 0
Шаблон:Flag 1327 921 31.0 905 82 310 31
Шаблон:Flag 1206 3295 320.2 958 220 4 23
Шаблон:Flag 1163 1421 -44.7 56 153 954 0
Шаблон:Flag 954 560 4.3 277 298 376 3
Шаблон:Flag 879 1625 63.1 386 317 176 0
Шаблон:Flag 873 1094 132.8 243 56 575 0
Шаблон:Flag 516 451 38.3 461 52 3 0
Шаблон:Flagcountry 460 604 -6.9 242 76 5 138
Шаблон:Flag 438 342 -17.0 43 240 155 0
Шаблон:Flag 383 2009 -2.0 77 24 33 249
Шаблон:Flag 311 100 -17.1 0 38 273 0
Шаблон:Flag 273 228 76.1 150 92 31 0
Шаблон:Flag 201 468 -88.1 35 11 155 0
Шаблон:Flagcountry 187 486 -34.8 8 99 79 0
Шаблон:Flag 41 68 13.9 22 18 1 0
Not classified by prov. 1406 n.a. -60.9 453 214 673 66
Шаблон:Flagicon Total 88446 1921 29.8 23830 33055 23051 8509

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