The first ship carrying grain has left a Ukrainian port under a landmark deal with Russia.
Turkish and Ukrainian officials say the ship left the southern port of Odesa early on Monday morning local time.
President Mauricio Macri is seeking a deal with the IMF to accelerate a $50 billion loan program.
The new austerity measures, announced Monday, were prompted by a 16 percent slide in the value of the peso last week, bringing the local currency's losses to almost 50 percent against the dollar so far this year.
Argentina's Economy Minister Nicolas Dujovne heads to Washington on Monday to thrash out a hastily revised loan deal with the International Monetary Fund to help revive South America's second-largest economy.
