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Roca–Runciman Treaty

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From the treaty, Britain's exporters received more benefits than Argentinian exporters. For only the promise of purchasing Argentine beef at the reduced levels of the Depression era, Argentina agreed to reduce tariffs on almost 350 British goods to the rates of 1930 and to refrain from imposing
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As long as there were currency controls in Argentina (limiting the sending of money abroad), everything that Britain would pay for purchases in Argentina could be returned to the country by deducting a percentage from payments to the
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ratified this agreement by Law #11,693. The treaty lasted three years and was renewed as the Eden-Malbrán Treaty of 1936, which gave additional concessions to Britain in return for lower freight rates on wheat.
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Argentina would give to British companies "a benevolent treatment towards insuring the greatest economic development of the country and the deserved protection to the interests of these companies."
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of refrigerated beef, but 85% of the beef exports were to be made through foreign meat packers. Britain "would be agreeable to permit" the participation of Argentine meat packers of up to 15%.
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Argentina agreed not to increase import duties on all British goods or reduce the fees paid to the British railways in Argentina and
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The treaty had strong political repercussions in Argentina later triggering a conflict from the denunciations of Senator
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Argentine Vice President Julio Roca (jr.) signs the pact in the presence of British trade envoy Sir Walter Runciman (
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and other goods imported from Britain at the time and vowed to buy coal only from Britain.
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from certain labour legislation, such as the funding of pension programmes.
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that were equivalent to the levels sold in 1932 (the lowest point in the
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Argentina, 1516-1982: From Spanish Colonization to the Falklands War
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Argentina was assured of an export quota of no less than 390,000
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On 1 May 1933, they concluded a bilateral treaty known as the
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duties on main imports such as coal, as already mentioned.
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was a commercial agreement signed on 1 May 1933 between
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1933 treaty between Argentina and the United Kingdom
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Index

Roca-Runciman Treaty

Argentina
United Kingdom
London
Julio Argentino Roca, Jr.
Board of Trade
Walter Runciman
Black Tuesday
Wall Street Crash of 1929
Commonwealth
Imperial Preference
Ottawa
Argentine beef
Argentine Senate
export
quotas
Great Depression
metric tonnes
foreign debt
coal
exemptions
Lisandro de la Torre


Rock, David
Argentina, 1516-1987: From Spanish Colonization to Alfonsín
ISBN
9780520061781
Rock, David

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