The government has eliminated withholding taxes on exports …

he The government eliminated export duties on a variety of products from regional economies, to a degree that reaches food and beverage producers in different parts of the country, who account for 41 percent of employment in the sector.

The Nation’s Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries announced on Thursday the decision of the national executive power to eliminate export duties from the vast majority of regional economies, such as fruits, vegetables, onions, tomatoes, sheep, goats, among others.

“This measure comes to accompany the great effort that the producers of these economies are deploying to maintain production and open new markets in a complex context like this year “Minister Luis Basterra stressed in a statement.

And he added: “Since we started the administration, we have worked 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.”

Decree 1060, published in the Official Journal, establishes the new tariffs and, in its foundations, indicates that “in terms of agro-industrial products, the potential of certain regional economies in terms of growth of investments, production and exports which will generate directly and indirectly job creation in all provinces of the country. “

At the same time, he details that “a zero percent (0%) export duty is set for these products 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 “.

From the ministry, they specified that the regional economies concerned by the decision “directly involve 192,000 workers throughout the national territory., an industry which represents 41% of employment in the agri-food industry and which contributes daily to territorial equity ”.

The production chains that no longer have export retention are aquaculture, beekeeping, horticultural products (tomato, peppers, onion, garlic, leeks, asparagus, etc.), mushrooms, olives, pisingallo corn, legumes, potatoes and cassava, nuts, tropical fruits, citrus fruits, fresh grapes and raisins, fine fruits, pears and apples, and seeds, among others.