Lula says Brazil and Argentina will study common currency for trade

Lula says Brazil and Argentina will study common currency for trade

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on Monday said Brazil and Argentina are studying the creation of a common currency to be used in trades between the two countries in order to reduce dependence on the U.S. dollar.

“Our finance ministers, each with his own economic team, can make us a proposal for foreign trade and transactions between the two countries that is done in a common currency to be built with much debate and many meetings. This is what is going to happen,” Lula told reporters alongside Argentinas President Alberto Fernandez in Buenos Aires.

(Reporting by Lisandra Paraguassu)

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