Argentina: United States and Argentina Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and Investment (ARTI) signed including non-discrimination and technology transfer provisions

On 5 February 2026, the United States and Argentina signed the Agreement on Reciprocal Trade and Investment (ARTI). The Agreement requires Argentina to refrain from measures that discriminate against United States digital services or digitally distributed products and prohibits imposing technology transfer requirements, including obligations to disclose source code or other proprietary knowledge, as a condition for doing business. The Agreement preserves a limited exception allowing regulatory or judicial authorities to require access to source code or algorithms for a specific investigation, inspection, enforcement action, or judicial proceeding, subject to safeguards against unauthorised disclosure.