Overview
- Announced on Nov. 13 in a joint White House statement after Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno’s meetings in Washington, the framework sets out the most comprehensive bilateral trade agenda in years.
- The plan envisions reciprocal tariff moves, including Argentine preferences for U.S. medicines, machinery and other goods, U.S. removal of certain duties on inputs and pharma items, and improved two-way access for beef.
- Argentina will accept U.S. technical and sanitary certifications—such as FDA approvals for drugs and devices—and allow vehicles built to U.S. federal standards, while scrapping consular formalities and phasing out the statistical import tax.
- Agricultural measures include opening Argentina to live U.S. cattle, granting U.S. poultry access within a year, easing registrations for U.S. meat and dairy, and refraining from restricting products using certain cheese and meat names.
- The framework pairs trade opening with commitments on stronger intellectual property enforcement, a ban on imports made with forced labor, environmental measures, cooperation on export controls and critical minerals, and facilitation of digital trade and cross-border data flows.