Deductions removed to encourage exports – News

The elimination of the tariff is included in Decree 1060 published this Thursday in the Official Journal, which also includes tariff changes for non-agricultural products.

“Most of the tariff positions of regional economies have fallen to zero”, reported today at Telam the Secretary of Food, Bioeconomy and Regional Development of the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Marcelo Alós.

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In its foundations, it specifies that “with regard to agro-industrial products, In a first assessment, the potential of certain regional economies in terms of growth in investments, production and exports which will generate direct and indirect job creation in all of the country’s provinces. “

He added that “a zero percent (0%) export duty is set for these goods as a concrete measure to help increase production and exports, supporting producers and associated value chains and in this way recover historical export levels, promoting the development of the national export industry.

Alós clarified that the prices of products such as beef or milk have not been changed, because “if we lower their export duties, it could affect the domestic market”.

The elimination of customs duties for most products of regional economies “comes to accompany the great effort that the producers of these economies have made to maintain production and open new markets in a complex context like that of this year”, The Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Luis Basterra, stressed in a statement.

He added that “since we started the administration, we have been working with a strong leadership to promote regional economies with a criterion of territorial equity, through each of the actions that we promote from the ministry”.

For his part, Alós stressed that “Regional economies generate a lot of added value, a lot of rooting in the territory, social and territorial equity.”

“The elimination of tariffs is aimed at accelerating the dynamism of regional economies and hoping that they will regain momentum in the exports that generate the dollars that Argentina’s economy needs,” said Alós.

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The channels affected by the new 0% tariff are those of Sheep and goatmeat, eggs, aquaculture, beekeeping, horticultural products (tomato, peppers, onion, garlic, leeks, asparagus, etc.), mushrooms, olives, pisingallo corn, legumes, potatoes and cassava.

Also the production of Nuts, tropical fruits, sweet citrus fruits, citrus fruits, fresh grapes and raisins, cucurbits, stone fruits, fine fruits, pears and apples, infusions, seeds, quinoa, spices, alfalfa, fruit foods, citrus fruit juices and oils and essences.

For 2021, according to Alós, the “floor” is “that we can grow in volume and value in the markets that we already have”, and the objective is “to obtain more markets to reach and diversify the exportable offer. “.

“We are going to work with the Foreign Ministry,” on the basis of an agreement that the ministry led by Basterra already has, “to support the markets we are reaching and to secure new ones,” Alós said.

Among other destinations, Brazil is a buyer of stone fruits, table grapes and garlic; Asian fine fruit; Russia of pears and apples, “to name a few products”.

For Alós, “the products produced by regional economies are more and more sophisticated, which allows them to conquer new markets, because it is not only a question of raw materials, but of quality, almost finished products”.

The universe of food and drink producers in the different regions of the country, reached by the elimination of customs duties, represents 41% of employment in the sector and generates 24% of total exports in the sector.

The ministry specified that the regional economies concerned by the decision “directly involve 192,000 workers throughout the national territory”.