BRASILIA, April 23 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's President Dilma Rousseff said here Tuesday that she plans to discuss recent trade disputes with her Argentine counterpart Cristina Fernandez.
"We have quite a large agenda with Argentina. We have to discuss all the ties: trade, investment, all the interaction between the Brazilian and Argentinean economies," Rousseff told reporters at the opening of an exposition in the capital Brasilia.
Rousseff is scheduled to meet with Fernandez during a visit to Buenos Aires on April 25 and 26.
The meeting was originally scheduled for March, but was postponed following the death of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on March 5.
Among the topics on the agenda are new rules established by the Argentinean government that affect several areas including the agriculture and automotive sectors, and Argentina's currency exchange policy, which Brazil says hurts its exports.
The most contentious issue between Brazil and Argentina is currently the suspension of planned investment by Brazilian mining company Vale in Argentina's Mendoza province for potassium extraction.
The company said it had to suspend the project due to rising costs, which went from an estimated 6 billion U.S. dollars in 2009 to 12 billion this year.
The Argentinean government has demanded that Vale and other companies with commitments in Argentina continue to pay their workers.
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