The head of the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP), Mercedes Marcó del Pont, and the Minister of Productive Development, Daniel Scioli, met this Tuesday to analyze the measures announced by the national government that establish payment mechanisms for imports, of a transitory form until the first of October.
During the meeting, the officials analyzed the new measures implemented through the Central Bank and the General Directorate of Customs to optimize the import payment system and agreed on the importance of deepening the articulation between both agencies.
Mark del Pont and Scioli They also addressed the situation of mining investmentsparticularly lithium, as well as the joint progress of different regulations in the sector, was officially reported.
Small and medium-sized companies will be exempted from the current requirements to finance their imports for an increase of 15% over the previous year, with a limit of up to one million dollars
The meeting also made it possible to discuss the role of Customs in monitoring foreign trade, to avoid maneuvers of over-invoicing of imports and under-invoicing of exports, said AFIP sources.
The Central Bank decided to adapt the foreign trade payment system to respond to extraordinary foreign exchange needs that attend to the importation of energy, sustaining the level of activity of SMEs and avoiding speculative maneuvers on imports.
The measures extend the import financing system to those carried out under a Non-Automatic License and to the importation of services and will be valid for a quarter, to give time to the normalization of foreign trade, the monetary entity specified in a statement.
In this framework, small and medium-sized companies will be exempted from the current requirements to finance their imports for an increase of 15% over the previous year, with a limit of up to one million dollars.
