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Relief operation of DRC Uruguayan blue helmets underway

Relief operation of DRC Uruguayan blue helmets underway

Friday, July 4th 2025 - 09:45 UTC Some 200 troops are arriving at Carrasco on a chartered Ethiopian Airlines flight from Rwanda (Pic Ejercito de Uruguay) Uruguay is carrying out on Friday a troop relief operation for its United Nations...

Brazil Pushes Mercosur–Panama Trade Talks as Bloc Seeks New Markets

Brazil Pushes Mercosur–Panama Trade Talks as Bloc Seeks New Markets

Brazil’s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva confirmed that Brazil will support starting free trade talks between Mercosur and Panama. He made this announcement during a meeting with Panama’s President José Raúl Mulino at the Mercosur summit in...

USMNT vs Mexico LIVE Score Updates: Half time (1-1)

USMNT vs Mexico LIVE Score Updates: Half time (1-1)

⏱️80' The United States hasn't given up, continuing to look for ways to score against Malagón's goal. Álvarez, Orbelin, Ruiz, and company are smashing balls left and right to prevent the match from ending in a tie. ⚽ 78' Goal, goal, goal, goal for...

Caught between China and US, South American bloc rethinks its trade game as internal rifts deepen

Caught between China and US, South American bloc rethinks its trade game as internal rifts deepen

BUENOS AIRES, July 4 — South America’s Mercosur bloc sought yesterday to expand its markets in the face of US President Donald Trump’s global trade war, with Brazil calling for closer ties with dynamic Asian economies. “It’s time for Mercosur to...

What Can Nigeria Learn from China’s Electricity Revolution?

What Can Nigeria Learn from China’s Electricity Revolution?

by Dakuku Peterside The moment of revelation came unexpectedly on a high-speed train leaving Beijing, where a screen showed that 36% of the train’s traction power came from wind energy. Outside, rows of wind turbines turned gracefully under the...

LatAm pivot

LatAm pivot

India must shed its protectionist mindset and trade more with resource-rich South America That Modi’s ongoing five-nation tour includes Argentina and Brazil isn’t a trivia. These two key South American nations can be important fulcrums of a...

Uruguay progresses towards developing its first regulatory agency

Uruguay progresses towards developing its first regulatory agency

Uruguay’s new left-wing coalition government took office in March 2025, under President Yamandu Orsi. Part of his new agenda has been to enhance the country’s regulation of pharmaceuticals. Uruguay is currently the only country in Latin America...

Brazil’s Lula da Silva promises to fortify Mercosur’s trade with foreign associates

Brazil’s Lula da Silva promises to fortify Mercosur’s trade with foreign associates

Updated at 3:09 p.m. Brazilian President Lula da Silva promised to work toward “fortifying inter-bloc trade with foreign associates” in the next semester as pro tempore Mercosur president after receiving the post from his Argentine counterpart...

Business Growth Through Mentorship

Business Growth Through Mentorship

Business Growth Through Mentorship Despite the uncertainty and angst among businesses large and small over how tariffs will impact their ability to procure goods, sell them at higher prices and stay viable, the Service Corps of Retired Executives...

Lula Urges MERCOSUR to Adopt Local Currencies for International Trade Payments

Lula Urges MERCOSUR to Adopt Local Currencies for International Trade Payments

Brazilian President Lula da Silva (L) and Argentine President Javier Milei (R), July 3, 2025. X/ @atanimaciones July 3, 2025 Hour: 11:18 am On Thursday, Brazilian President Lula da Silva called on member countries of the Southern Common Market...

South American bloc looks to Asia, Europe in face of Trump trade war

South American bloc looks to Asia, Europe in face of Trump trade war

South America's Mercosur bloc sought Thursday to expand its markets in the face of US President Donald Trump's global trade war, with Brazil calling for closer ties with dynamic Asian economies. "It's time for Mercosur to look toward Asia,"...

Mercosur-EFTA deal: South America, Europe forge new economic corridor with free trade pact

Mercosur-EFTA deal: South America, Europe forge new economic corridor with free trade pact

South America’s largest trading bloc, Mercosur has signed a trade deal with the four-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA) after 10 years of negotiation amid global economic uncertainties read more South America’s largest trading bloc,...

Milei urges Mercosur to pursue greater trade openness at summit

Milei urges Mercosur to pursue greater trade openness at summit

President Javier Milei on Thursday urged his Mercosur partners to push for greater trade openness within the bloc as he opened a major summit of the South American bloc in Buenos Aires. Speaking at the opening of the event, the La Libertad Avanza...

Mercosur and Bloc with Switzerland and Norway Strike Free Trade Deal, and Chocolate Could Get Cheaper

Mercosur and Bloc with Switzerland and Norway Strike Free Trade Deal, and Chocolate Could Get Cheaper

Mercosur and EFTA (European Free Trade Association) signed a free trade agreement this Wednesday (2nd) in Buenos Aires. The deal covers a market of 290 million consumers and a GDP of about USD 4.39 trillion, and is the result of eight years of...

EU’s neighbours strike Mercosur trade deal as Brussels awaits

EU’s neighbours strike Mercosur trade deal as Brussels awaits

The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) has clinched a trade agreement with Mercosur, welcoming South American agricultural products, which remain the main stumbling block for EU ratification. After a decade of negotiations, EFTA (Iceland,...

U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services, May 2025

Explanatory Notes Goods (Census basis) Data for goods on a Census basis are compiled from the documents collected by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and reflect the movement of goods between foreign countries and the 50 states, the...

Mercosur, four-nation European trade bloc seal sweeping trade deal

Mercosur, four-nation European trade bloc seal sweeping trade deal

BUENOS AIRES/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – South America’s Mercosur trade bloc and a group of four small European nations yesterday wrapped up talks on a sweeping free-trade agreement a decade in the making that will cover nearly all shipments between the...

Primary Market Delivers Full Pipeline Once Again

Primary Market Delivers Full Pipeline Once Again

Although domestic issuers have recently launched significantly fewer bonds, the first half of the year still made a strong showing. Both issuance activity and exchange trading increased. Notably, there was a high concentration of subordinated...

South America's Mercosur, Europe's EFTA bloc seal trade deal

South America's Mercosur, Europe's EFTA bloc seal trade deal

Mercosur, South America's largest trade bloc, on Wednesday signed a trade deal with the four-nation European Free Trade Association (EFTA). The EFTA is made up of Switzerland, Norway, Liechtenstein and Iceland, while Mercosur comprises full...

Mercosur, EFTA seal farm-friendly free trade deal

Mercosur, EFTA seal farm-friendly free trade deal

Pact promises wider ag market access for 300 million consumers South America's Mercosur trade bloc and a group of four small European nations on Wednesday wrapped up talks on a sweeping free-trade agreement a decade in the making that will cover...

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