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The Mercosur countries have ratified a agreement to advance the elimination of international roaming charges in mobile phones of users in the region. For the measure to be completed, it must be approved by the parliaments of each country. Once installed, users will pay the same price as the country in which they live even if they are in another part of the region.

The goal is to reduce costs in order to optimize communication in the regional block, since There will be no need to pay extra to the phone company to make calls, send messages or use the Internet..

The agreement was confirmed at the Santa Fe summit, where Mauricio Macri will transfer the group's interim presidency to Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro.

"We reached an agreement on roaming," said Chancellor Jorge Faurie, who stressed the need to "transform" the bloc according to the "needs" of the countries that compose it.

For roaming elimination to be specified, the parliaments of Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay must approve it. For this reason, no details were provided regarding implementation deadlines or their impact on businesses.

From May 2020, the collection of this service will also be eliminated from users in Argentina and Chile, in accordance with an agreement signed between Macri and his Chilean counterpart, Sebastián Piñera.

The Foreign Economic Relations Secretary of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Horacio Reyser, also discussed the cost reduction at the meeting of the Common Market Council, in which the work of the ad hoc group on the examination of the consistency and dispersion of the customs tariff. External Common (AEC) to change the current aliquot.

"This is a vital task for the bloc, as the CET is one of our most important constitutive instruments – a historic event, since it is the first time since the establishment of ECA 25 years ago that we conduct a comprehensive review. "said Reyser.