During the presentation of the 2023 budget in front of the Chamber of Deputies, Serge MassaMinister of Economy, confirmed that he will promote a modification in the current regime of imports and criticized the current system.
For the purpose of exemplifying, the Minister He named a series of situations that border on the illogical. “We are facing the absurdity that in Argentina slot machines, pressure washers, machines that mine Bitcoins, jet skis have an automatic license, while assembly parts for SMEs have non-automatic licenses. Clearly, these are mistakes that we have to correct”, he commented. Serge Massa.
Serge Massa He said that he will promote the Comprehensive Import Monitoring System (SIMI) be simple and transparentof priority approval for intermediate goods that SMEs need to continue growing.
In his own words: “That each SME or large industry entrepreneur, at the time of approval of the SIMI, know the payment date of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic”, and achieve thus avoiding bottlenecks.
“This SIMI is going to give predictability to small and medium-sized companies in our country, since it will have a payment date at the same time as its approval. Thus, companies will be able to plan their production processes with order and certainty”, concluded the Minister.
The trade regime that will give predictability to the economy for all of 2023 will be around the automatic (LA) and non-automatic (LNA) licensing regime.
Availability of dollars for production
The administration of foreign exchange in order to sustain production throughout the territory is one of the central concerns of the ruling party, according to what is said by both the Minister of Economy and the Secretary of Industry and Productive Development, José Ignacio de Mendigurem.
Massa He had spoken about the issue of dollar availability last week at the meeting he had with the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA).
On the aforementioned occasion, the businessmen had already raised with the minister the need to articulate the actions of the Ministry of Commerce and the BCRA so that they can have certainty as far as the acquisition of inputs is concerned.
