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So there's some context as well with Argentina beef.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/ra...

Argentina's been paying Huawei for 5G gear and services with beef direct to China, who's been selling it via Huawei stores (see https://www.huaweimossel.com/).

Earlier in March a shipment of ~22 tons of beef was rejected by China for having antibiotics in it and was 'contaminated'.

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This was back in 2024, when Argentina used to have severe restrictions on foreign exchange in an effort to (artificially) prop up the value of the Peso. This made it difficult for Argentine companies to purchase the foreign currency needed to import things like 5G equipment, hence this weird beef-for-telecoms equipment deal.

Argentina liberalised its Foreign exchange market in April 2025 so I'd imagine this sort of thing is no longer happening.

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