Trade - Overview
For almost a decade, ARGO INTERNATIONAL INC. has drawn its strength and durability from many different forms of partnership, notably in the economic, commercial, financial and trading areas.
ARGO INTERNATIONAL INC. (INTERNATIONAL TRADE DIVISION) which is the key interlocutor with SEVERAL Business Organizations on the transatlantic economic relationship is being renewed under fresh leadership of ROBERT B. VEKICH (President of ARGO) and with a 10-strong 'business advisory board' consisting of CEOs from companies across a range of business sectors in the EU, Africa and the U.S. This will bring a changed focus as well as another source of energy for the economic partnership in its own right, while also recognising the need to ensure that the economic, financial and commercial relationship is rooted in an awareness of our common interests and values.
A strong transatlantic relationship enhances the capacity of the US and the EU along with Africa to jointly influence global developments for the benefit of all countries, whatever their stage of development.
ARGO INTERNATIONAL INC. believes that neither side should take transatlantic economic ties for granted and that both should work harder to avoid the periodic regulatory and trade conflicts that trouble the relationship. But the economic agenda must look beyond conflict avoidance and management to develop joint responses to common global challenges. We shall play our part in pro-actively identifying those challenges and recommending appropriate responses through well-informed policy advice based on positions determined through the direct participation of our member coordinators.
The issues on which we will focus will be both transatlantic and global. We will encourage the EU, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the U.S. to adopt convergent rather than divergent regulatory approaches to important financial and economic sectors so as to remove as many obstacles as possible to the easy conduct of transatlantic business.
Our members are global operators whose daily experiences testify to the benefits of international agreements with transparent rules and procedures. This means we are key stakeholders in efforts to secure a successful outcome to our efforts that will promote growth and stability in the global economy. In short, we want to help a reinvigorated transatlantic alliance to foster global economic cooperation and development.
Furthermore, we will provide a business view on how to foster a more competitive business environment, including for Small and Medium-Sized enterprises. Thousands of these SMEs are our business partners and their prosperity and efficiency helps to determine ours.
We want the scale and importance of these economic ties to be better understood on both sides of the Atlantic. ARGO INTERNATIONAL INC. wants to contribute to their future growth so that the U.S. and the rest of the world not only drive the global economy into a new era of stable growth and prosperity, but also ensure the permanence of a multilateral, rules-based trading system. In this way, the transatlantic relationship will deliver benefits for businesses and citizens on both sides of the Atlantic.