Overview
- The announcement followed Argentine Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno’s meetings in Washington with U.S. Trade Representative Jamieson Greer and later Secretary of State Marco Rubio.
- Core provisions outline reciprocal market access and tariff relief, with Argentina granting preferences for U.S. goods and the U.S. removing duties on select natural resources and pharmaceutical inputs while weighing Section 232 treatment more favorably.
- Argentina will recognize U.S. technical and sanitary certifications, including federal vehicle safety and emissions standards and FDA authorizations for drugs and medical devices, and will scrap import licenses, drop consular formalities and phase out the statistical tax on U.S. goods.
- Agriculture chapters promise improved conditions for bilateral beef trade without specifying quotas, open Argentina to U.S. live cattle and to U.S. poultry within a year, and streamline procedures for U.S. meat and dairy.
- The framework commits Argentina to tougher intellectual‑property enforcement, a ban on imports made with forced labor, data‑transfer adequacy for the U.S., and closer coordination on critical minerals, export controls and non‑market trade practices.