This Wednesday the approval of the SIRA will be published in the Official Gazette, in a joint resolution of the Ministry of Commerce and the General Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP) to which Ámbito agreed. The objective is to generate “predictability and traceability” in foreign trade operations. Once it has the status of “exit”, it will have a validity period of 90 calendar days.
A detail that appears in the resolution generates fear and relief at the same time, according to sources from the private sector: several organizations will intervene in the approval at the same time, which will have to record the observations they find so that the companies know in which part of the road they have to regularize and avoid the “encouraged”. Organizations may not delay more than 60 days. However, they fear that the interventions of various sectors of the State could “step on” imports for weeks.
On the one hand, the AFIP and Customs will put a magnifying glass on import orders: they will analyze the “risk profile”, to see if the company carried out operations of over or under-invoicing, or “distorted the regime with abusive practices”, such as the “interposition of judicial measures”. In addition, it will look at the Financial Economic Capacity, through the so-called CEF system.
On the other, there will be the Secretary of Commerce and the Central Bank, which must evaluate the information provided by the importer, corresponding to the term in consecutive days between the official dispatch and the estimated date of access to the Free Exchange Market (MLC), for the payment of imports.
Also Companies will be allowed to pay for imports with “own possession”: in those cases, they must give notice that they do not require access to the foreign exchange market. As Ámbito was able to find out, more and more SMEs are analyzing this option for one-off supplies and low amounts for “extreme” cases.
Given the query made by the hundreds of executives who these days parade through the second floor of the former Ministry of Productive Development, in search of answers from Matías Tombolini, Secretary of Commerce, the Government ordered that SIMIs that were in an “officialized” or “observed” state will be dropped, and they must register again with the SIRA system. However, those that had the status of “exit” are still valid, but the new “customs risk profile” that Customs will make will be applied to them, to be “reevaluated”.
In addition, the resolution creates the “single foreign trade current account”, in which companies must consult and register the amount in pesos of the total of each of the exchange operations. This includes something that surprised the business chambers: the entry offices to the Free Zone must also be registered.
Finally, the official document details how it will be the new system that adds regulations also for services. It is called the system of imports and payments of services abroad (SIRASE), in which the same controls of the SIRA will be, in reference to Customs, the AFIP, the Ministry of Commerce and the Central Bank. Economy sources reported that there will be a range of prices for the freight value, since they observed that there were also dispersions and overinvoicing there.
Source: Ambito
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