Argentina to weaken peso with trade taxes in bid for IMF funds

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Argentina is set to introduce tax and currency measures that will in effect devalue the peso as part of a hard-fought deal with the IMF to release delayed tranches of a $44bn loan programme.

Buenos Aires will introduce a new preferential exchange rate for agricultural exports and levies on imports…