The President of Argentina, Alberto Fernandez, will travel on Tuesday to the neighboring country and with a right-wing government, Uruguay, preceded by the head of state Luis Lacalle Pou. It is in this instance that he will assume the pro-tempore presidency of the Mercosur bloc until June 2023.
The argentinian president He announced that he will seek to strengthen the regional supply chains of the industrial, food and energy sectors. Alberto Fernandez He will succeed the Uruguayan Lacalle Pou as leader of Mercosur and will carry out his vision of how to manage the regional bloc considered by him to be the most important in the last 30 years in South America.
The first conclave with the address of the leader Alberto Fernandez It will take place amid the tensions caused by the Uruguayan nation after announcing its attempt to enter the Trans-Pacific agreement without consulting its Mercosur partners, led by New Zealand and Australia. Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay expressed their dissatisfaction with this decision, describing it as unilateral on November 30.
According to trade within the member countries of Mercosur in 2021, economic exchanges were 41,000 million dollars, with an increase of 42% compared to 2020, the year where the coronavirus pandemic had the greatest impact and 24% compared to to 2019. In terms of international trade of the regional bloc, on the other hand, a record level of 598.00 million dollars was reached in 2021.
Argentine government sources explained to the media that the increase in intra-Mercosur trade “is the highest value since 2014 and is mainly explained by the trade in goods with high added value.”
According to partner Brazil, This time it will be the last Summit that Jair Bolsonaro could attend, although his presence was not confirmed. From now on, the left-wing politician and newly elected president of Brazil will participate, Lula da Silva, who is presumed to carry the slogan for the conservation of the Amazon rainforest.
Balance of Mercosur in 2021
Intra-Mercosur trade in 2021 grew by 42% compared to 2020, the exchange of the regional block with the other economic blocks of the world was 598 million dollars and imports from outside the area registered a year-on-year growth of 39%. .
The balance of the trade balance of the regional bloc of the southern cone of America was a surplus of 79,000 million dollars, the highest since the creation of Mercosur.
