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Argentina: Mineral Policy

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General Information on Argentina

With a Gross Domestic Product (GDP, current USD, 2015) of around US$ 584,000 million, Argentina is after Brazil and Mexico, the third largest economy in Latin America (World Bank 2017). Argentina’s economic structure is diversified. Manufacturing and primary industries (agriculture, livestock, hunting, forestry, fishing, and mining) are the leading sectors accounting for 21% and 14%, respectively, of the domestic economy (2011) (Secretariat of International Economic Relations 2012). Even though agriculture only represented 4.3% of the GDP (2011), it has traditionally been a pillar of the economy as the exports of grains and their derivatives (mainly soybean) represent the leading export sector (Jiménez 2011) and explain a large share of Argentina’s balance of trade which recorded surpluses during the last decade (although they ran on a deficit in 2015 and 2017).

Mining and quarrying of energy and nonenergy minerals represent around 3% of the GDP (KPMG 2018...

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    Laws and Regulations

    • Agreements entered by Argentina to avoid double taxation, Public Revenue Under-Secretariat, Finance Secretariat, Finance Ministry. Available from https://www.economia.gob.ar/sip/basehome/dir3_convenios.htm

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    Acknowledgments

    We acknowledge Florencia Heredia’s and Sandra Basañes’s comments to a much earlier version of this manuscript. Potential errors and imprecisions are our own.

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    1. Centre for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral Law and Policy, School of Social Sciences, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland, UK

      Ana Elizabeth Bastida

    2. Instituto Interdisciplinario de Economía Política de Buenos Aires (IIEP-Baires) y CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

      Diego I. Murguía

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    1. Ana Elizabeth Bastida
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    Correspondence to Ana Elizabeth Bastida .

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    1. Montanuniversität Leoben , Leoben, Austria

      Günter Tiess

    2. Kolkata, India

      Tapan Majumder

    3. The university of Dundee Center for Energy, Petroleum and Mineral, Dundee, United Kingdom

      Peter Cameron

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    1. Agency for International Minerals Policy (MinPol), Dreistetten, Austria

      Diego Murguia

    2. IIEP-Baires/CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina

      Diego Murguia

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    Bastida, A.E., Murguía, D.I. (2018). Argentina: Mineral Policy. In: Tiess, G., Majumder, T., Cameron, P. (eds) Encyclopedia of Mineral and Energy Policy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-40871-7_139-1

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