Lou Rinaldi, the United States ambassador to Uruguay, announced last Thursday that he is focused on increasing the export quota for Uruguayan products to his country, particularly beef and citrus products such as oranges and lemons. According to the Efe news agency, Rinaldi made the announcement after meeting with Uruguayan President Yamandú Orsi at the presidential residence in Montevideo.
“We are promoting business to Uruguay and we are also promoting Uruguayan business to the United States. That is our goal,” he said, stressing the importance of increasing export quotas for other Uruguayan products to the North American market.
For his part, Orsi explained that US purchases of beef from Uruguay have increased in recent years, and that during the meeting they discussed “the possibility of expanding that horizon a bit further and working more firmly, including some US investment, for example in technology.” Uruguay currently has a 20,000-ton duty-free quota for beef exports to the United States.
