More than 400 Argentine and Spanish businessmen will analyze bilateral business opportunities at CEOE

State visit of Mauricio Macri to Spain

The event will focus on promoting the presence of SMEs and encouraging investments in sectors such as agri-food, infrastructure, energy and telecommunications, among others.

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Within the framework of State visit of the President of the Republic of Argentina to Spain, Mauricio Macri, More than 400 businessmen from both countries will meet in CEOE, to analyse bilateral business opportunities, especially for SMEs, and to promote investments in key sectors such as infrastructure, agribusiness, energy, the pharmaceutical sector or telecommunications, among others. The “Spain-Argentina Business Meeting”, is organized by the Secretary of State for Commerce, CEOE and Chamber of Commerce of Spain, in collaboration with the Embassy of Argentina in Spain.

 

The event, which will last all day, includes an initial session in which the opportunities that Argentina offers to Spanish investment will be presented and will be led by CEOE, CEPYME, ICEX and Chamber of Spain. On the Argentine side, the country's Minister of Production will participate, Francisco Cabrera; the Minister of Labor, Jorge Triaca, the president of the Argentine Industrial Union, Adrian Kaufmann; the Ambassador and Secretary of International Economic Relations, Horacio Reyser; and government representatives in the sectors of infrastructure and public works, agribusiness, SMEs, start-ups and information technology. The President and other representatives of the Argentine Trade and Investment Bank-BICE and the president of the Argentine Investment Agency.

 

 

Within the framework of the State visit of the President of the Republic of Argentina to Spain, Mauricio Macri, more than 400 businessmen from both countries will meet at CEOE

 

 

Round of meetings

 

After analyzing business opportunities between the two countries, a round of meetings of more than 500 B2B meetings will be held between Spanish businessmen and Argentine businessmen, who are part of the delegation accompanying the president. Macri during his State visit. In addition, meetings will be held in parallel between various officials and authorities of the Argentine government and the Spanish companies. Subsequently, representatives of the sector associations will meet with Argentine businessmen to specifically analyse the trade and investment possibilities of each strategic sector (agri-food, ICT and telecommunications, construction, energy and pharmaceutical sector).

 

Big investors

 

During his visit, the president Macri He will also meet with the main Spanish investors, during a breakfast, the purpose of which is to present the new business climate that exists in Argentina, as well as investment opportunities and possible projects in the area. Also participating in the meeting on behalf of Spain will be the Secretary of State for Trade, Maria Luisa Poncela; the president of CEOE, John Rosell and the president of the Spanish Chamber of Commerce, Joseph Louis Bonet; and on the Argentine side, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Worship, Susana Malcorra, the Secretary of International Economic Relations, Horacio Reyser and the Undersecretary of Trade Promotion and Development of Productive Investments, Marcelo Lucco.

 

bilateral relations

 

Spain is the eighth client for Argentina at a global level (the second in the EU, behind Netherlands) and the twelfth supplier. The products that were exported the most Spain In 2016, the most important exports to this market were automotive equipment and components, electrical material, plastic raw materials and semi-finished products, pharmaceutical products and automobiles. Steel products and publishing and perfumery products were also prominent.

 

For its part, the products that Spain The most imported products from Argentina during the same period were waste from the agro-food industry, frozen mollusks and crustaceans, fresh citrus fruits, copper and its alloys, fish and organic chemical products.