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CLIPPING INTERNACIONAL NEGINT Brasília, 05 de dezembro de 2018

Índice I. OMC _______________________________________________ 2 Argentina takes Peru to WTO in biodiesel row__________________________ 2 II. NEGOCIAÇÕES REGIONAIS E BILATERAIS _________________ 2 China confident on U.S. trade pact, Trump cites Xi's 'strong signals' ________ 2 China's State Media Offers Some Clarity on U.S. Trade Deal ______________ 4 III. OUTROS ____________________________________________ 5 El Mercosur se cita en Brasilia para intentar salvar el acuerdo con la UE _____ 5

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I. OMC Argentina takes Peru to WTO in biodiesel row Reuters (Reino Unido) Argentina has launched a dispute at the World Trade Organization to contest Peru’s anti-dumping and anti-subsidy duties on Argentina’s exports of biodiesel, a WTO filing published on Wednesday showed. Argentina’s complaint suggests the two countries have failed to settle a row that blew up in October 2016 when Peru slapped tariffs on imports of biodiesel from Argentina for a period of five years after complaints of unfair competition.

II. NEGOCIAÇÕES REGIONAIS E BILATERAIS China confident on U.S. trade pact, Trump cites Xi's 'strong signals' Reuters (Reino Unido) China expressed confidence on Wednesday that it can reach a trade deal with the United States, a sentiment echoed by U.S. President Donald Trump a day after he warned of more tariffs if the two sides could not resolve their differences. The remarks, by the Chinese Commerce Ministry, follow a period of relative quiet from Beijing after Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping reached a temporary truce in their trade war at a meeting over dinner in Argentina on Saturday. In a brief statement, the ministry said China would try to work quickly to implement specific items already agreed upon, as both sides “actively promote the work of negotiations within 90 days in accordance with a clear timetable and road map”.

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“We are confident in implementation,” it said, calling the latest bilateral talks “very successful”. Trump, in a post on Twitter, linked Beijing’s silence to officials’ travels and said he thought Xi had been sincere during their weekend meeting to hammer out progress over trade. “Very strong signals being sent by China once they returned home from their long trip, including stops, from Argentina. Not to sound naive or anything, but I believe President Xi meant every word of what he said at our long and hopefully historic meeting. ALL subjects discussed!” Trump wrote on Wednesday. The U.S. president a day earlier had said the ceasefire could be extended but warned tariffs would be back on the table if the talks failed and that he would only accept a “real deal” with China. China’s Foreign Ministry referred specific questions to the Commerce Ministry, which is due to hold its weekly news briefing on Thursday in Beijing. “We hope the two working teams from both sides can, based on the consensus reached between the two countries’ leaders, strengthen consultations, and reach a mutually beneficial agreement soon,” Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters. The threat of further escalation in the trade war between the world’s two largest economies has loomed large over financial markets and the global economy for much of the year, and investors initially greeted the ceasefire with relief. The mood has quickly soured, however, on scepticism that the two sides can reach a substantive deal on a host of highly divisive issues within the 90-day negotiating period, and markets continued to slide on Wednesday in part from confusion over the ceasefire’s lack of detail. Failure would raise the specter of a major escalation in the trade battle, with fresh U.S. tariff action and Chinese retaliation possibly as early as March. The White House has said China had committed to start buying more American products and lifting tariff and non-tariff barriers immediately, while beginning talks on structural changes with respect to forced technology transfers and intellectual property protection.

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Sources told Reuters that Chinese oil trader Unipec plans to resume buying U.S. crude by March after the Xi-Trump deal reduced the risk of tariffs on those imports. China’s crude oil imports from the U.S. had ground to a halt.

China's State Media Offers Some Clarity on U.S. Trade Deal Bloomberg (Estados Unidos) China’s official statement on weekend trade talks with the U.S. was very light on details, but in the ensuing days, some of the country’s state-run media outlets have reported details from the summit and referred to information the government has tried to censor. In a Sunday editorial in Chinese, the Global Times noted that the agreement struck between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump in Argentina on Saturday was temporary. The paper’s editor-in-chief, Hu Xijin, also tweeted and posted on Weibo that it was just a truce, and that tariffs would still be levied if there was no lasting deal. That’s more detail than was in a Wednesday statement from China’s commerce ministry that said the trade meeting with the U.S. was “very successful” and expressed confidence in implementing the agreement -- but didn’t provide any further details on the outcome. There’s still no official statement from Beijing that the deal reached Saturday to not raise tariffs is only for a 90-day period and is dependent on the outcome of talks. China’s government has been slow to formulate its response to the summit as senior officials were still out of the country with Xi, Bloomberg News reported. The Global Times is affiliated with the state-run People’s Daily, and published a separate Chinese-language editorial on Tuesday noting that the U.S. had made no mention of Beijing’s “Made in China 2025” plan in any statements after the Xi-Trump meeting, nor criticized China’s industrial policy. China’s government has yet to issue official comment on those details. The day after Xi and Trump met, the WeChat account of the People’s Daily’s overseas edition published an article detailing some of what was discussed at their talks. The

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article was by Mei Xinyu -- a researcher at a think tank under the Ministry of Commerce - and cited a White House statement. It explained that China and the U.S. had agreed to work together on issues including widening

market

access,

protecting

intellectual

property

rights,

avoiding

forced

technology transfers and jointly fighting against cyber theft. The China Daily also published a commentary on Tuesday noting the 90-day period, explaining it was a truce and saying the U.S. would likely escalate the trade war if no permanent deal was achieved.

III. OUTROS El Mercosur se cita en Brasilia para intentar salvar el acuerdo con la UE El Diario (Espanha) Los cancilleres de Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay y Uruguay se reunirán este jueves en Brasilia con la meta de fijar una posición común que permita concluir este mismo año el acuerdo comercial que negocian el Mercosur y la Unión Europea (UE). La cita de los ministros de Relaciones Exteriores del Mercosur permitirá analizar el resultado de la última ronda de negociaciones entre ambas partes, celebrada entre el 12 y el 20 de noviembre en Bruselas y que, como las anteriores, concluyó sin grandes progresos. También será realizada bajo nuevas dudas, generadas ahora por el presidente de Francia, Emmanuel Macron, quien supeditó el apoyo de su país a las negociaciones a la posición que finalmente adopte el presidente electo de Brasil, Jair Bolsonaro, sobre el Acuerdo de París contra el Cambio Climático. Según Macron, Francia no será favorable a "que se firmen acuerdos comerciales amplios" con países opuestos al Acuerdo de París, que ha sido criticado por el ultraderechista

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Bolsonaro, quien hasta sugirió que Brasil puede abandonar ese pacto global que ya ha ratificado. El equipo del presidente electo de Brasil también ha dicho que el Mercosur no estará entre las mayores prioridades del Gobierno, que se inclinará más por los tratados comerciales bilaterales que por los acuerdos multilaterales, lo cual también ha sembrado dudas sobre su real interés en las tratativas con el bloque europeo. Según dijo la futura ministra de Agricultura de Brasil, Tereza Cristina Costa, el próximo Gobierno intentará reformar algunas de las normas del Mercosur, pues considera que son "desiguales", sobre todo en el apartado agropecuario, que a su vez es uno de los frentes de discordias entre el bloque suramericano y la UE. "Precisamos sentarnos y ver los intereses. O Brasil intenta fortalecer el Mercosur y decir lo que quiere, o entonces sale, en un caso extremo. Pero no debe continuar como está", declaró Costa tras haber sido anunciada como próxima ministra de Agricultura. Más allá de las nuevas tensiones generadas por las posiciones de Bolsonaro, quien asumirá el poder en Brasil el próximo 1 de enero, las negociaciones entre el Mercosur y la UE continúan trabadas por diferencias en los sectores agropecuario, automotriz y lácteo, y cuestiones de acceso a mercados, entre otros puntos. Ambos bloques discuten un acuerdo comercial desde el año 2000, cuando comenzaron formalmente unas negociaciones técnicas que se han arrastrado sin éxito desde entonces, a pesar de que durante todo el proceso se ha ratificado siempre la "voluntad política" de llegar al buen puerto que se persigue desde hace casi dos décadas.

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