India and Argentina are linked by a Strategic Partnership, and India is Argentina's fifth-largest trading partner and export destination

Background

The Embassy of India in Buenos Aires records in its bilateral relations brief that India opened a Trade Commission in Buenos Aires in 1943, which was later converted into one of the first embassies of India in South America, in 1949.
Argentina had established a Consulate in Kolkata in the 1920s, which was shifted to Delhi as an embassy in 1950, and it has had a Consulate General in Mumbai since April 2009.
India-Argentina diplomatic relations were elevated to the level of Strategic Partnership during the State Visit to India of the then President of Argentina, in February 2019.
Both countries completed 75 years of their diplomatic relationship on 3 February 2024, marked by a commemorative book titled 'India-Argentina: 75 Años de Relaciones Diplomáticas'.
Indo-Argentine trade saw a further resurgence in 2025: from January to November it registered a growth of 36.77%, with total trade valued at USD 6.34 billion, and India is ranked as Argentina's fifth-largest trading partner and export destination.
India's main exports to Argentina are petroleum oils, agro chemicals, yarn-fabric-madeups, organic chemicals, bulk drugs and two-wheelers; its main imports from Argentina are vegetable oils, led by soybean and sunflower oil, with finished leather, cereals and pulses.
Space cooperation runs under the Agreement on Cooperation on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space signed in 2009, whose ISRO-CONAE Joint Committee held its third meeting in October 2024; nuclear cooperation runs under the bilateral Agreement for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy.
In the first ever acquisition of lithium resources abroad, the state-owned KABIL signed an agreement with CAMYEN, a public sector undertaking of the Province of Catamarca, to lease five lithium blocks for exploration and eventual exploitation.