The SEA-LAC Trade Center initiates the Seminar Series named as “ SEA-LAC Talk”, which seminar details is related to trade and investment in the Southeast Asian and Latin American regions in several aspects. The concept of SEA-LAC Talk is seminar style which offers the initiative ideas, sharing opinions, and giving knowledge to people who are interested in Trade and Investment in SEA and LAC countries. In each series, the SEA-LAC Trade Center invites guest speakers who are experienced in trade and investment in SEA and LAC countries from several industries to share their experience and knowledge.

The SEA-LAC Trade Center cooperates with Embassy of Argentina, Thailand and The Office of Thailand Trade Representative to organize a seminar on a topic of “Opportunities in ARGENTINA: Agro-business Giant”. The speaker is Mr. Pablo Hitters, an Argentinean businessman who has a family cattle business, exporting Argentinean beef to international market, and family manufactured natural ingredients such as vitamin E mixed tocopherols and phytosterols. He is also a consultant on International Business Management. (Education: MBA degree in Strategy, Finance, and Marketing from Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University, USA)

Argentina, officially the Argentina Republic, is the second largest country in South America (Brazil is the first largest country.) It is the eight-largest country in the world by land area (2,791,810 sq. km.), while Thailand is the forty-ninth largest country (514,000 sq.km). GDP per capita in purchasing power parity in 2008 is $14,333. Argentina is an open economy, export-oriented agricultural sector, and diversified industrial base. Argentina is a full member of the MERCOSUR with Brazil, Paraguay, Uruguay and Venezuela, and five associate members: Bolivia, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, and Peru. The growers, ranchers, processors, and other agribusinesses in Argentina is blossoming- accounted for more than $73 billion in exports. Main exports of Argentina are meat, sugar, and soybean. Moreover, Argentina is the second largest producer of ethanol after Brazil.