The G7 leaders' summit has ended.Argentina claimed to Prime Minister Johnson for the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands.The BCRA announced new measures to control access to imported foreign currency.The US FDA approved Argentine wheat HB4.Mercado Libre and Ingenico were reported for tax evasion in the importation of payment terminals.The UN Security Council meets today urgently to discuss bombing civilian targets in Ukraine.Reading this email will take you approximately 6 minutes.The G7 Germany summit ended.The summit of leaders pledged to support Ukraine for as long as necessary and to intensify economic and political pressure on Russia.Yesterday the Ukrainian president, Volodimir Zelensky, presented virtually.The leaders of the group of countries pledged to explore new ways to "insulate Russia from its share of the global market."Yesterday, Bloomberg published that Russia defaulted for the first time since 1918, because a debt maturity that it did not pay expired on Sunday.The Russian government denies that it has defaulted and maintains that its payments did not reach creditors due to the Western blockade.In his speech before the G7, Alberto Fernández asked to avoid protectionist and tariff barriers for food trade, highlighted the need to reach a dialogue to stop the war between Russia and Ukraine and called for a new financial architecture that includes the peripheries of the world.In the bilateral meeting with the United Kingdom, the Argentine government once again reiterated the claim for the sovereignty of the Malvinas Islands and maintained that the relationship is working until the conflict is resolved peacefully.The British prime minister said the situation "was resolved 40 years ago."The United Kingdom illegally occupies the Argentine territory of the Malvinas Islands since 1833 and fails to comply with the UN resolutions that call for dialogue for the peaceful resolution of the conflict.There are 17 pending colonial situations around the world: 11 involve the United Kingdom.Today the NATO summit begins in Spain, with the presence of Biden.The organization's leaders seek to increase their high-availability forces to more than 300,000.The Central Bank announced new measures to control access to foreign currency for imports and prevent the loss of reserves.The measures extend the import financing system to those carried out under a Non-Automatic License and to the import of services.In this way, sumptuary or “luxury” goods acquired from abroad must be financed for a term of no less than one year.The new regulation seeks that large companies obtain financing from banks, foreign entities, parent companies and suppliers to make part of their payments.Depending on the type of import, it establishes mandatory financing terms of between 180 and 360 days, with some exceptions.SMEs are exempt from the current requirements to finance their imports for an increase of 15% over the previous year, with a limit of up to 1 million dollars.The new measures will be valid for one quarter with the idea of ​​expanding reserves by one billion dollars, within the framework of the increase in imports in various items.Yesterday, the BCRA managed to buy some 250 million dollars in the MULC as a result of the new measures.The United States FDA approved HB4 Argentine wheat, after a consultation initiated by the Bioceres Group in 2018. After the safety review, the FDA concluded that it does not require more information and that it does not propose new reviews or approvals prior to its marketing.It is a key step toward US trade clearance, now awaiting approval from the Department of Agriculture.This conclusion comes after the approvals of Brazil, Colombia, Australia and New Zealand, for its use in food and feed.HB4 wheat is a drought tolerance technology developed by the Bioceres Group that increases wheat yields by an average of 20% under water-scarce conditions.It was a development of said company, a native of Santa Fe, in conjunction with CONICET researchers.The e-commerce companies Mercado Libre and Ingenico were reported for tax evasion.An investigation by the General Directorate of Customs detected irregularities in the importation of 400,000 payment terminals in 2019, 2020 and 2021. The companies declared that they were importing an old model without QR readers or WiFi connection, which do not pay import duties.However, they were importing other models that are covered by an aliquot of 16%.The total owed in taxes for this rate is 7.5 million dollars, plus a fine of the same amount as established in the Customs Code.Between both companies, they will have to pay about 15 million dollars.A DGA report published by Página/12 maintains that it was not an involuntary error.The companies were notified but signed in disagreement.The AFIP must now prepare an infraction summary to present before the justice.If it is unfavorable for companies, the fine can be up to 5 times the tax loss.After the notification, the companies began to import with the corresponding tariff position.It will meet today urgently at the request of the Ukrainian government to assess Russian bombing of civilian targets.The main topic will be the firing of a missile against a shopping center in Kremenchuk, which left at least 13 dead.The UN Secretary General described the attack as "deplorable".The Russian army launched a missile attack in the last hours in the Ukrainian region of Odessa, on the southwestern coast of the country.It is Ukraine's natural outlet to the Black Sea and its main channel of communication with the global economy.Yesterday, the Russian president announced that he plans to participate in the G20 summit in Indonesia, which could generate a boycott by the West.The UN Oceans Conference began its meetings yesterday in Portugal.High-level officials and scientists from 120 countries come together to promote solutions that protect the oceans, the main source of protein for billions of people around the world.The Secretary General of the organization said that the world is facing an emergency in the oceans that threatens nature and humanity.The oceans are also a vital line of defense in the fight against climate change.The oceans absorb 25% of all carbon dioxide emissions and capture 90% of the heat generated by that pollution.Marine ecosystems are threatened by unsustainable levels of fishing and dangerous practices such as bottom trawling.The UN wants world leaders to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030. Currently, marine protected areas represent around 7%.In Latin America, Colombia is the first country to declare protected 30% of its marine areas.I don't know how to solve this, but it seems like a good excuse for you to read Benjamin Bratton's Terraforming.How are they to climb Mount Everest?Yes me neither.But here you can scale it on a 3D map without any risk.You can put Paul McCartney in the background with Dave Grohl at Glastonbury while you climb.