Overview
- The White House issued a joint communiqué by Presidents Donald Trump and Javier Milei announcing a bilateral Trade and Investment Framework that deepens the strategic economic relationship.
- The pact outlines reciprocal market openings, with Argentina granting preferential access for U.S. goods such as medicines, machinery, chemicals, autos and medical devices, while the U.S. removes some tariffs on natural resources and pharmaceutical-use goods and improves conditions for beef trade.
- Argentina will accept U.S. technical and sanitary certifications, including FDA authorizations for drugs and devices, allow vehicles built to U.S. federal standards, eliminate consular formalities, and gradually phase out the statistical tax on U.S. imports.
- Argentina commits to strengthen intellectual property enforcement and address patent-process issues, recognize the U.S. for cross‑border data transfers and accept U.S. electronic signatures, as both countries coordinate on export controls, investment security and responses to non‑market practices.
- Technical teams will finalize the legal text and oversight mechanisms, following Washington meetings by Foreign Minister Pablo Quirno with U.S. officials Jamieson Greer and Marco Rubio, as U.S. Ambassador Peter Lamelas publicly welcomed the agreement.