The director of customsWilliam Michel, confirmed that the measure was put into effect this Wednesday: “We have cases of exporters who do not liquidate the dollars from their exports and go to the MULC (single and free exchange market) and ask the Central Bank for dollars at official value to be able to import” .
“Whoever wants dollars to import, perfect. Now, what is fair is that if he has dollars pending settlement, bring them Until then, regularize will not have the economic-financial capacity to access the exchange market, “explained the official in statements to radio El Destape.
According to Michel, the amount that the companies They have pending liquidation of US$3.1 billion. “A single company has more than 800 million dollars. It is a case that is in the courts,” said the official.
The measure had been anticipated on Tuesday night by the Minister of Economy himself and presidential candidate of the Union for the Fatherland (UxP): “Those who have to liquidate and do not liquidate will not receive access to the exchange market until they are up to date with their liquidations”.
The Government has spent several weeks trying to force the liquidation, with a series of notices sent to the companies so that they liquidate the balance of their sales abroad in a period of 10 business days. According to official information, until last week 460 companies had received notices that guaranteed the liquidation of US$118 million.
In this context, the Government also focused on “trout” foreign purchases that “reduce access to foreign currency for SMEs.”
“There was fake importers who brought merchandise to the country that was worth a dollar and billed it at two dollars. Traditional smuggling has mutated to these maneuvers of about invoicing. When we talk about trout imports, we are talking about false importers who transferred 700 million dollars abroad for merchandise that they never brought into the country,” the official explained.
Exchange of information with the US
In addition, Michel spoke about the importance of information sharing agreements. “I listened to candidates who questioned the exchange of information with the United States, all these maneuvers, in general, step on a North American bank. We denounced a mining company that was dedicated to providing fracking sand for Vaca Muerta, this company had overbilled its imports by US$100 million. We not only achieved exchange of information with the US. that gave us the information of the accounts of those companies that were in the State of Florida, but also that the economic criminal justice processed and seized for $5 billion to the owners of the company.
Source: Ambito
