“The Argentinians won’t be able to buy iPhone and BlackBerry smartphones from now on, or at least until the Argentinian economy is back on its feet again,” Manuals.ws reports.
“The Argentinian Government made a surprising decision these days and blocked the sales of the iPhone and BlackBerry devices,” Manuals.ws reports. “The Argentinian Government have took some measures to reduce the inflation level andВ strengthen the Pesos / US dollar currency parity. One of them was to block the sales of certain electronics temporar[ily], among them iPhone and BlackBerry phones.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Protectionism.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
Is it new? http://www.bnamericas.com/news/telecommunications/iphone-sales-halted-due-to-import-restrictions (July)
Ohhh, the Argentine black market is salivating.
What about android phones? I guess not.
DAMN!!!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!!!!!!!! DAMN!!!!!!!!!! :'(
Don’t cry for me Argentina.
An this will really help the trade imbalance…. Seems to me it will only hurt their businesses that depend on the sale of those products to make a living …. And will saddle their population with inferior products…seems not too well thought out … But then hastily formed plans may have gotten them in trouble to begin with
Isn’t that kinda unfair for foreign businesses? You can’t sell your products here without building a plant here first.
I didn’t even know policy like this actually exist.
Why not, it paid off for Brazil, and now Argentina is probably hoping for the same.
Foxconn is now spending billions on building a plant in Brazil.
I wonder how much I could earn smuggling iPhones to Argentina?
-jcr
“The Argentinian Government have took [sic] some measures . . . .” Once again, professional writers from Manuals.ws strike a blow for grammatical literacy!
On MDN, it’s a necessary measure due the US Government interventionism on Latin American Countries, you Americans live well but you don’t realize they yo government is fucking Latin america, I suggest to you watch the documentary “South of the border” from Oliver Stone, so you can see how your government lie to the us citizens and how they are fucking all poor countries in LA
So I recommend that you read the “Guide to the Perfect Latin American Idiot” to learn that the only one causing all this retardment is the Latin Americans themself electing governments made of oppressors and demagogues like this Kirchner.
DCW. Dead Country Walking.
I agree that the subversives within the US government have had a long term policy of screwing over susceptible countries. But in the case of Argentina, casting the blame for explosive inflation elsewhere is significantly disingenuous. Argentina has a very long history of internal exploitation leading to, among other things, the ruination of its own financial system. Clearly the isolation of the country from foreign products is an act of dire desperation.
I wish Argentina a better future and I wish the psychopathic exploiters within the US government a swift fulfilment of their ultimate desire for self-destruction. 😯
Just like Argentina 10 years ago, we need in this country a Peaceful Pot Protest(r) PPP, to stop the banksters from imploding the economy and put them in jail.
Do Americans have the cojones to do that?, we’ll see next year!!
Argentinian econom must be in bad shape. Gov is in a hole. Sounds like it’s time for another Falklands war.
“Protectionism.”
You say that like it’s a dirty word.
Too much protectionism can fail miserably, but a little of it isn’t a bad thing. If we’d employed a little protectionism, maybe we’d still have a manufacturing base in this country, instead of importing everything from China.
——RM
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Will check it out. thx.
Stupidism! Or half stupidism, cause blocking BB sales could make the Gauchos smarter!
I am fron Argentina. This is old news. The govt is forcing phone makers to build “plants” to manufacture phones in our country, or compensate with products made here. As example Porsche is being balanced with wine… An iphone here, with a u$s 45 month used to cost 450 dollars. Now they are around 1000… Not for everybody. But in fact everything here costs between 60 to 100% higher than in US, we seem to be rich people!
Is that really any different to the us policy on agriculture. You really should find out more about the protectionist policies of your own government before critising others. Cotton, beef and dairy products too name a few are all subject to quotas and tarrifs to protect American farmers. This harms farmers in other countries.