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This Q&A gives an overview of the key factors affecting inward investment, including information on the jurisdiction's legal system; key laws and regulatory authorities; investment restrictions; and details of international treaties, customs and monetary unions ...

Domestic legislation1. Domestic law.Identify your jurisdiction’s money laundering and anti-money laundering (AML) laws and regulations. Describe the main elements of these laws. Law 25,246, enacted in 2000, was the first to regulate both criminal money laundering (by means of inclusions of specific money laundering and terrorism financing offences in the Argentine Criminal Code (ACC) and antimoney laundering provisions ...

Q&A provides a high level overview of finance tax in Argentina and focuses on corporate lending and borrowing (including withholding tax requirements), bond issues, plant and machinery leasing, taxation of the borrower and lender when restructuring debt, and securitisations. The Q&A is part of the global guide to tax on transactions. For a full list of jurisdictional Q&As visit www.practicallaw.com/taxontransactions-mjg.Tax authorities. 1 ...

As you no doubt already know, the Pharmaceutical Industry in Argentina is a strictly controlled industry. Said control is held by the ANMAT Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica) and it spreads from the first authorisation of a laboratory to act as such in the country, moving through the authorisations to commercialise products, up to pharmacovigilance of products that have already been commercialised ...

Financial Information Units (FIUs) are agencies created according to FATF-GAFI recommendations that receive reports of suspicious transactions from financial institutions and other persons and entities, analyze them, and disseminate the ensuing intelligence to local law-enforcement agencies and foreign FIUs in order to fight against money laundering and terrorism. The Argentine FIU is controlled by the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights ...

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Argentina has great geological potential and a very attractive regulatory framework that provides mining companies with important incentives, such as a 30-year fiscal stability period and several tax exemptions.   However, in 2010, the Argentine mining industry faced certain issues prompted by regulatory trends in order to address social, environmental, and economic concerns towards mining ...

I once heard that Chinese architects have a curious, but effective, way of designing public squares. First, they will sow seeds over the surface of the square and wait till the grass grows. Then, they will let people walk around the square for a period of time. Finally, the stepped areas will help the architects decide which paths across the square to pave ...

This Newsletter describes the latest developments in Trade and Regulation in the Latin American region and the EU ...

This Newsletter describes the latest developments in Trade and Regulation in the Latin American region and the EU ...

This Newsletter describes the latest developments in Trade and Regulation in the South American region. There is an entire write up on the resolution of controversies within MERCOSUR. Bolivia & Peru have signed a General Agreement of Economic & Social Cooperation & Integration, the details of which are included in the newsletter ...