The problems generated to Uruguay for the exchange difference with Argentina They branch out more and more and now it is the pharmacies that alert about the illegal entry of products and for millions of dollars from the neighboring country.
Enrique Padialpresident of the Pharmacy Center of Uruguay, He assured that the situation has been dragging on for a long time. “Already at the beginning of the year there was a differential theme that was important, but that was increasing due to the increase in the famous Dolar blue that did not stop rising and, obviously, all of this disrupted everything that is the operation of the Uruguayan pharmacy,” he explained to Underlined.
He added that the same person as in Uruguay buy one or two medicines, when he travels to Argentina brings treatment for the whole year. The phenomenon occurs mainly in users with chronic treatments.
According to Padial, there is also “the ghost traveler”, a person who travels Argentina country with a list of names of remedies that it already has placed in Uruguay.
The Pharmacy Center pointed out that, only in the month of January, Uruguayans spent 5 million dollars in Argentine pharmacies. Bearing in mind that the blue dollar has been increasing in value since May, current values are estimated to be much higher.
Padial anticipated that the owners of pharmacies will meet with the authorities in search of solutions, since the sector had to start sending personnel to unemployment insurance.
Although the coast bears the brunt of the effect on consumption and trade as a result of the exchange difference with Argentina and the exodus of purchases by Uruguayans to that country, the impact is beginning to be seen throughout the Uruguay.
The collection of the DGIFor example, it has been falling for three months, mainly due to the drop in taxes linked to consumption, such as the VAT and the Imesi to fuels.
Source: Ambito
