“Most of the companies that had presented SIMI and had them pending resolution were giving up, and of the SIRAs presented since then there is not a single precautionary measure that we have lost,” Michel emphasized in a meeting with accredited media, including Télam.
The official explained that the importers gave up their claims because “they realized that in the long run they were going to lose” as a result of the controls carried out in the SIRA and given the risk of complaints for “abusive use of precautionary measures”, which could leave them out of the new scheme and without authorizations to import.
60% of the precautionary measures were concentrated in 100 companies, mostly in the textile and electronic sectorsMichel said.
Key Customs Report
At the same meeting, the official highlighted a recent report published by the agency, which details that the charges and fines for companies, both for over-invoicing of imports and under-invoicing of exports, escalated to US$1,018.4 million in the second half of 2022, 667% more than in the previous six months.
While in the period between January and June, Customs analyzed 14,134 operations for a total audited amount (FOB amount) of US$896.4 million, applying supplementary charges and fines of US$132.7 million, from July to December, the shares doubled “substantially”, up to 33,150 operations, and the FOB amount grew 430% to reach US$4,747.4 million.
The operations focused mainly on imports: in the first semester 10,956 imports had been analyzed and in the second the number rose to 26,953.
Likewise, export fines registered a greater increase (4,476%) and companies had to face charges for US$613 million; in imports, fines amounted to u#s405.2 million (239%).
The most significant items on which actions by Customs fell are mining, agricultural products, capital goods, medical-sanitary supplies and agrochemicals.
In this regard, the organization emphasized that the cases “find a common denominator: harmful commercial triangulation, which has an impact on the undue outflow of foreign currency”.
These are commercial operations with purchase invoices issued from the United States, mainly, and from Hong Kong, Uruguay and Panama, to a lesser extent.
Source: Ambito
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