He Ministry of Economy included new varieties from different chains in the list of products of the regional economies reached by the Export Increase Program (PIE), that establishes a temporary differential exchange rate of $300 per dollar until October 31, through resolution 216/2023 published today in the Official bulletin.
It determined that it includes “products derived from hare meat chains; pork products, by-products of the wine chain; only some qualities of cotton that do not have an impact on commercialization in the domestic market; enzymes and ingredients for the food industry ; forage seeds and of other species, and flowers and ornamental plants”.
In the case of pork products, the regulations clarified that “in this case the level of exports with respect to production is less than 1%.”
The resolution also highlighted that “through these stimulus programs, it seeks to promote territorial roots, value added, industrialization at source and the increase in exports through harmonious socioeconomic development, among the different links of the value chains of the economies regional”.
In addition, he stressed that the heterogeneity in productivity, insertion in the world and the productive matrix of the different chains are “especially relevant in determining the scope of this measure.”
In this way, around 60 chains of the regional economies are already incorporated into the Export Increase Program, in order to promote employment and guarantee the supply of the internal market within the framework of Fair Prices.
Among them are those of sorghum, fodder barley, sunflower and their main derivatives, such as oil and flour; products derived from vegetable chains (fresh, frozen and preserved), food preparations for animals, fresh fruits and their derived products; sheep meat, brans and sharps from cereal milling, vegetable seeds and other species.
There are also wine, olive, beekeeping, fishing, forestry-industrial, wool, legumes, garlic, tea, peanut, tobacco, lemon, plum, popcorn, fine fruit, dried fruit, confectionery sunflower, tangerine complexes. , oranges, rice, blueberries, pears and apples, onion, kiwi, grapefruit, among others.
The requirements for all the products of the regional economies that must be met by those interested in accessing the benefits of the program are to have exported the goods at some point in the 18 months immediately prior to the entry into force of Decree 194, as well as to assume the commitment to maintain or increase the number of jobs.
They must also commit to supplying the local market with these goods, and must maintain or increase the supply volumes that they register in the 18 months prior to the validity of the aforementioned decree.
Finally, they will have to comply with the Fair Prices program or the price agreements for the local market established by the Ministry of Commerce.
Source: Ambito
