Macroeconomics and Policy Argentina’s outgoing presidential administration’s first post-election measure was to increase the percentage of foreign currency that exporters can re-enter into the system through the free exchange market (financial dollar). Now, exporters can allocate 50 percent to the free market (which trades at approximately 900 ARS/USD) and 50 percent at the official exchange rate (approximately 356 ARS/USD). This significantly boosted the payment capacity, which was immediately reflected in peso-denominated offer prices. The outgoing administration also moved to change the exchange rate used for soybeans. In November, soybeans were paid using a weighted exchange rate of 70 percent at the official dollar...
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Communicating importance of value-added products
Facing increasing pressure to quantify the value of export promotion efforts to investors, a U.S. industry organization retained WPI to develop a quantitative model that better communicated the importance of exports. The resulting model concluded that value-added meat exports contributed $0.45 cents per bushel to the price of corn, increasing support for that sector’s financial support of WPI’s client. In addition to serving the red meat industry with this type of analysis, WPI has generated similar deliverables for the U.S. soybean and poultry/egg industries.