The Ministry of Productive Development ordered the transfer of 15 tariff positions from the automatic licenses regime to the non-automatic licenses, with the aim of prioritizing SMEs, substituting imports and taking care of employment, the ministry reported.
This was established based on the powers available through Provision 8/2022 of early May, which allows the ministry “to have tools to guide industrial policy favoring the SME sectors, seeking to promote regional economies, favoring producers and preserving the local productive framework”.
Among the positions achieved, the case of pork meat producers stood out, whose importation of frozen or refrigerated meat has effects on the local industry, for which it is aimed at guaranteeing compliance with sanitary measures established by the national enforcement authority.
In the case of the naval industry, the aim is to consecrate incentive schemes to increase the integration of the national value chain, and it was highlighted that “after 50 years, Argentina returned to manufacturing naval plate, an industry in full growth with capacity job creation”.
Regarding the incorporation of recycled, Kraft and corrugated paper, the initiative encourages favoring workers in the popular economy from a sustainable perspective, the recycling value chain.
Finally, with regard to capital goods linked to the washing and palletizing of bottles and their parts, the aim is to boost the production and employment of the Argentine metalworking industry.
