A brief overview of Argentina’s regulatory regimes for business

In the January issue of this column, we highlighted how the bilateral economic relationship between China and Argentina has grown and developed. This growing rapprochement can be seen in the proliferation of business linkages; more precisely, in the growth of trade and investment, and in the support both nations’ governments have conferred on economic activity by signing numerous international legal instruments – which provide the framework for business development under mutually beneficial conditions – to strengthen the strategic relationship between the two economies.

Trade and investment queries

Despite the undeniable rapprochement on trade and investment matters between Chinese and Argentine companies, businesspeople from both countries continue to have many questions and doubts regarding business affairs as a result of the geographical, cultural and linguistic distance that separates them, reflected in the numerous inquiries received daily at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of Argentina and our missions abroad.

For this reason, we consider it timely to cover the regulatory regimes governing foreign business activity in Argentina in this issue, in an effort to close any gaps that a lack of information may cause when making investment decisions.

Felipe Vismara is the investment promotion director of the undersecretariat for investment development and trade promotion in Argentina’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship