Comercio Argentina Inglaterra Roca-Runciman [1930s]

Description: This is a Nepaco folder with newspapers' and magazines' clippings and articles inform us about the Roca-Runciman Treaty. The latter was one of the most polemic commercial arrangements in Argentine history. It “embodied the other, regressive side of conservative economic policy during the depression. The treaty followed Britain’s adaptation of imperial preference at the Ottawa Conference” in 1932. So, in 1933, the vice-president of Agustín P. Justo’s government--Julio A. Roca Jr.--met with Walter Runcinam, President of the British Board of Trade and signed a treaty: “The Roca-Runcinam Treaty enabled Argentina to maintain meat exports at the level of 1931-32, but little else. . . . Britain, by contrast, regained the conditions for trade it had enjoyed before the depression.” See, Rock, David, “Argentina, 1930-1946,” in Bethell, Leslie, (comp.), Argentina Since Independence, (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 191-193. Extent of original: Nepaco folder. Condition of original: Poor condition.