Uruguay is located in the southern cone of South America.  Nestled between the continent’s two largest countries, Brazil and Argentina, Uruguay is a logistics and services hub in the region. The country’s population is 3.5 million people, half of which live in the country’s capital of Montevideo and its main port.  Uruguay has the continent’s highest GDP per capita, and is renowned for its stability, transparency and rule of law. The economy’s key sectors are agricultural commodities (one of the globe’s top exporters of paper pulp, beef and soybeans), services and logistics and tourism.

Business Climate

Intellectual Property

Uruguay’s intellectual property laws are harmonized with the main international guidelines in protection of copyrights, trademarks and patents. IP protection applies to original works of art in the literary, scientific and artistic fields for a legal term.

Uruguay has ratified the Bern Convention for the protection of literary and artistic work.

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