About CEIBO
CEIBO is an independent observatory based in Berlin focused on the analysis of economic and industrial cooperation between Argentina and Germany. It produces sectoral diagnostics on bilateral trade, financing, technological transfer and institutional architecture. Its work combines quantitative analysis of disaggregated trade data with qualitative field research based on interviews with key actors in the Argentine-German ecosystem.
CEIBO is directed by Nicolás Quiroga Lombard, sociologist (Universidad de Buenos Aires) with an M.A. Interdisziplinäre Lateinamerikastudien from the Freie Universität Berlin. His work sits at the intersection of international cooperation, bilateral trade and industrial development. As founder of Regionale Welt he managed cross-border supply chains within the European Union, gaining direct experience in actor coordination and commercial operations in the European market. He currently develops applied research on trade structure, productive specialisation and technological cooperation between Argentina and Germany.
The project is directed at Argentine actors operating under asymmetric conditions, firms involved in bilateral trade, German cooperation and trade institutions, and researchers working on Latin American economic dynamics.
Methodology
CEIBO combines quantitative analysis of disaggregated trade data — INDEC-COMEX and UN Comtrade at HS2/4/6 level — with qualitative field research. DESTATIS is used as a control source through German mirror statistics. Interviews with importers, exporters, financing institutions and sectoral chambers allow the data to be read against the logic of actors: how decisions are made, what instruments are actually used, and why certain patterns persist across very different macroeconomic cycles. Neither source is sufficient alone — the quantitative dimension establishes what the data show; the qualitative dimension explains why.