Uruguay informed its partner countries in the Southern Common Market, also known as Mercosur, that it will seek bilateral trade deals (MercoPress) outside the bloc that could include extending preferential tariffs without seeking Mercosur’s consensus.
Venezuela: EU representatives arrived in Venezuela (Bloomberg) to study the possibility of sending an official election-observation mission to the country during gubernatorial and mayoral elections in November. Such a mission has long been sought by Venezuela’s opposition.
