In addition, there will be a special stopover at the International Monetary Fund, since a working meeting is planned between Massa and Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, where he will be accompanied by the technical team of the Ministry of Economyintegrated to Leonardo Madcur, Lisandro Cleri and Marco Lavagna, who could also be joined by Silvina Batakis.
As Ámbito learned, The “central axis” of the tour will be focused on seeking investment in sectors of the real economy, “with the purpose of generating jobs and fiscal income”. Massa will hold talks with twenty US companies that currently have productive investments in Argentina, a meeting coordinated by the US Chamber of Commerce and the Argentine Embassy. Among the companies with which there will be work meetings are the oil companies Chevron, Exxon, Shell and Total, the automobile company Volkswagen, the mining companies Rio Tinto and Livent (Lithium) and the Amazon group, among others.
In Washington, Massa will meet with the President’s Biden coordinator for Infrastructure, Investment and Energy, Amos Hochstein. are also planned meetings with Treasury authorities, although no names have been disclosed for now, although progress will be sought in the information exchange agreement between the fiscal and tax authorities of Argentina and the United States. The latter is an initiative that has been marked as a priority by another important figure in massism, the current director of customs William Michaelwhich seeks to generate “perception of risk” in the maneuvers of export over-invoicing and import under-invoicing and penalize triangulations with the United States.
Among international organizations, in addition to the IMF, Massa will also meet with the president of the Inter-American Development Bank, Mauricio Claver Carone, and with the Managing Director of the World Bank, Axel van Trotsenburg. With both officials, Massa will seek to speed up the disbursement of loans destined for infrastructure and productive projects, something that had generated sparks with the management carried out by Gustavo Béliz. These loans will provide foreign exchange, which according to Massismo will be applied to “strengthen the fiscal balance and reserves.”
in Washington D.C. Massa will launch, together with the Minister of Tourism Matías Lammens, a program to promote receptive tourism which will remain in the hands of IMPROTUR and which aims to generate foreign exchange, they commented to Ámbito.
On Friday the 9th, Massa will travel to the city of Houston together with the Secretary of Energy, Flavia Royónand the presidents of YPF, Paul Gonzalezand ENARSA, Agustin Gerez, with whom he will hold meetings with executives from Chevron, Exxon, Shell and Total.
“The intense work agenda, coordinated by his international adviser, the diplomat Gustavo Martínez Pandiani, together with the ambassador Jorge Arguello, will serve for Massa to present himself in the US capital as the new Minister of Economy and chief negotiator for Argentina”, he told him. commented from the environment of the minister to this newspaper.
According to those who know Massa, “the mission aims to consolidate support in the US for the stabilization of the Argentine economy and strengthen reserves through more markets for national exports, more productive investments in strategic sectors such as energy, gas, agribusiness, proteins, knowledge-based services, minority and more foreign exchange income from receptive tourism”.
Source: Ambito
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