Javier Milei’s government, in the middle of a day of strong economic changes, announced that from now on will simplify the process of importing used capital goods. In this way, from the decree that will be published in the Official Gazette, It will not be more necessary to enter equipment and machinery used to the country.
The measure was announced minutes after the meeting between President Javier Milei and the Secretary of the Treasury of USA, Scott Besentand it is one of the central points in negotiation by tariffs.
Argentina He promised to solve the points that USA said on the road map in the document called “Barriers to foreign trade”, Prepared by the Office of the Commerce Representative (USTR). There all the impediments were questioned that could make trade and investment difficult between the two countries.
During his visit to the country, the official Trumpist He highlighted the management of the Government of Milei and assured that “This stability will give way to what should be a massive rise of foreign direct investment. “
Luis Caputo highlighted the simplification to import used capital goods
According to the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputoprohibitions that existed to import goods in multiple sectors of the industry, such as oil and gas extraction machines, industrial cutters, matricia molds (used in the automotive industry) and machinery for the graphic industry, among others, will also be eliminated.
“The measure eliminates the intervention of the State that demanded, only in 2024, The processing of around 1500 files, “said the official.
In turn, he remarked that this measure will benefit mainly the sectors that cannot access new capital goods and instead resort to goods used to produce competitively with the possibility of having lower costs.
Caputo also pointed out that “it is a benefit for strategic sectorslike him miner, he energetic or the Hydrocarbons, because they can count on agile processes for the importation of used machinery, without the intervention of the State limiting their business decisions to carry out the investments. ”
Finally, the head of the Palace of Finance pointed out that prior to the modification that the Government will carry out, the CIBU was only authorized “if there were no local manufacturers of similar goods, which constituted an economic prohibition and contradicted the presidential decree 70/2023 that determines that prohibitions or quotas to imports for reasons or economic foundations can be established.”
Source: Ambito
