LatinNews Daily - 25 November 2021

In brief: Argentina hails surge in trade surplus

* Argentina’s national statistics institute (Indec) has released new figures which show that the country’s exports totalled US$6.8bn in October, up 46.5% year-on-year, while imports totalled US$5.25bn, up 31% on October 2020. This leaves a trade surplus of US$1.6bn, up 138% on the amount registered in October 2020. In the first ten months of 2021, Argentina’s exports totalled US$18.3bn, up 39.1% on the same period in 2020, while imports grew 49.1% to total US$16.86bn.