Overview
- Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno accepted Peter Lamelas’s credentials on Monday, calling relations at a high point under Presidents Javier Milei and Donald Trump.
- Both governments are working to unblock a reciprocal tariff‑reduction agreement covering more than 50 Argentine products, advanced in earlier talks led by Gerardo Werthein and Pablo Lavigne.
- Reporting says U.S. interlocutors link parts of cooperation to limiting Chinese presence, including space technology sites, and to securing stronger positions for U.S. companies in lithium, uranium, gas, oil and hydroelectric power.
- Lamelas recently said the two sides aim to advance an economic and commercial cooperation agreement and pledged “big news” soon.
- The new envoy, a Cuban‑born physician and Republican donor close to Trump, arrived Friday to begin his post and is expected to meet economic and energy officials in the coming days.