The shock front-runner in Argentina’s presidential election, libertarian Javier Milei, would strip out state intervention from the giant farming industry to unleash an export boom. Free-market devotee Milei vowed to quickly dismantle policies that have held back agricultural investments this century. He would unify foreign exchange rates, scrap export taxes and quotas and remove direct meddling in food prices. “It’s part of our deregulation program,” Milei said in an interview at Bloomberg’s Buenos Aires offices. “Those are all regulations we have to get rid of as quickly as possible.”
Major Changes for Argentine Ag/Trade Policy?
The shock front-runner in Argentina’s presidential election, libertarian Javier Milei, would strip out state intervention from the giant farming industry to unleash an export boom.
(Farm Journal)
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