Sergio Massa met with companies from the United States: imports, research of dollars and a trip to Washington on the agenda

One day before attending the Council of the Americas, Sergio Massa held a meeting with the leadership of AmCham (the American Chamber, which mainly brings together American multinationals) for the first time on Wednesday in his role as Minister of Economy, Production and Agriculture.

During the meeting, he heard from the highest authorities of the institution the request that at least import barriers begin to be resolvedin particular the payments of the same they take up to almost two months with the new rules.

This midday will be the highest authority of the national government to be presented to the Council of the Americas, at the Hotel Alvear, where, among others, the ambassadors Jorge Argüello and Marc Stanley spoke.

At the meeting with AmCham, Massa talked about his trip to Washington Y Houston, the mecca of oil companies, which will start on 6 September and which will lead its predecessor, the current head of Banco Nacion, Silvina Batakis, a minister for just over 20 days in the midst of a crisis that has worsened.

Massa seeks a more in-depth tour of Batakis before being moved and is also asked to see US businessmen.

as he knew ClarioneIn front of the president of AmCham, Facundo Gómez Minujin, and its CEO, Alejandro Díaz, Massa outlined his urgencies: get dollars and lower the fiscal deficit.

Who has heard him say that the minister has in mind a sort of evaluation of an “orthodox plan” but also they “understood” their limits: that there cannot be a sudden devaluation and that it is not yet known how flexible Cristina Kirchner will be in granting something to the campaigns in negotiations, a sector with which Kirchnerism is in permanent conflict, but which is the engine of the economy.

Massa, who is fascinated by the documentary about former Israeli Prime Minister and President Shimon Peres which is on Netflix, has said in other meetings that he stayed on. surprised by the anti-inflation plan applied by the late Nobel laureate.

At the meeting with AmCham we then talked about how to apply a cut to the different ministries what Peres did, among other measures.

Meanwhile, Alberto Fernández will go to the United Nations on 19 September in New York and two days later also in Houston for connecting investors and stakeholders to Vaca MuertaArguello said.

The Argentine ambassador to the United States also argued that the president could also reschedule the visit to Joe Biden for September, postponed due to the US president’s Covid.

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