The Undersecretary for Political Affairs of the Presidency, Nicholas Ritacco, assured this Saturday that this area of the Executive is carrying out the donations of the “customs delays” that are confiscated upon finding irregularities in the importation and questioned the messages that circulate “lightly” about this taskwhile objecting that “the workers who do a good job in the State are insulted and accused.”
In a statement, Ritacco came out at the crossroads as a result of a statement that the former soccer player Sergio Agüero, the Kun, circulated through the TikTok social networkwhere was asked what the Customs workers do “with all the things they have there”in reference to the merchandise that is seized for failing to pay the customs fee or for not having a marketing or import permit.
“I would like a message against the national industry and the work of Argentines not to be transmitted so lightly, with the importance that the textile sector has in provinces such as La Rioja or Catamarcaand above all things, it is terrible that Customs workers, who do a good job in the State, are insulted and accused, by stating that they keep the things that are seized,” the official replied.
Ritacco, in any case, remarked that he, “as a 29-year-old”, considers the historic player of the National Team, whom he mentioned by his popular nickname, “an idol” with “international relevance” and that he was aware “of what that it represents for all Argentines”.
Then, to explain in detail what a “customs lag”remembered that “It is everything that is confiscated trying to enter the country and that remains in a deposit because you do not pay the customs feeor because it does not have a marketing or import permit, or because an attempt is being made to hide it in a truck”.
At that point, he recalled that in 2018, during the management of Mauricio Macri, “the vaccines that were allowed to expire in a warehouse” they were “customs backlogs”, and added that so were the “sneakers, balls, toys, dental material and up to three fire trucks that had been abandoned in the warehouses” and that the management of the Frente de Todos found when assuming in December 2019.
That merchandise and those devices, Ritacco continued, “we bring them closer to the population” in initiatives that were carried out “in conjunction with municipalities, provinces and NGOs such as Cáritas”.
“For example,” he continued, the pumpers had been abandoned because they had problems with the import permit. This I was there since 2017 without paying the rate in the deposits, accumulating debt for years, rusting without use, when in truth they had tried to be acquired by the volunteer firefighters of Berazategui and Merlo,” he reviewed.
And he added: “We with all the Customs workers, we regularize this situation and deliver them so that they can be put to use by the population. All that negligence that existed in the previous government (due to the Cambiemos administration) was modified by reducing the times in which these goods can reach the people.
Finally, as a balance of the 2023 action, Ritacco maintained that until the first fortnight of March the Undersecretariat for Political Affairs managed “73 received dispositions” that were transferred to different areas of the national, provincial and local State “for an amount of 321,787,813 pesos plus 1,180,718 dollars”, of which “48% were granted to municipalities, 36% to the provinces and 16% to the Nation,” he reported.
“All this task is carried out in coordination with the General Directorate of Customs,” he completed.
Source: Ambito
