President, Luis Lacalle Pou announced this Wednesday in Mercedes that will exempt from VAT “bread, noodles and similar products” of national origin and that there will be a “similar” attitude for those who import these foods.
The measure will be for at least 30 days and with the possibility of extending it for longer, as may occur in the case of roast that is already sold without basic VAT since last week.
Lacalle Pou also said that the import regime for some products that are not made in Uruguay and that have “some tariff issues”
Asked about the price of oil, the president maintained that he wants to “facilitate the issue of tariffs on imports,” but did not give more details.
On the other hand, the president stated that from his point of view, “It is not the supermarkets that drive prices up, but when they are imported”. “That’s where we have to work,” he said, citing the price of toothpaste on the border with Brazil as an example.
“The same toothpaste made by the same manufacturer that comes out of the same place 10 meters from one side of the marker and the other has a difference of two and three to one. That is what we have to work on and that is what import permits do”, he pointed out.
