PRO deputies presented the initiative that seeks to institute by law one of the modifications that were made Javier Milei in December through the Decree 70/2023: the elimination of state intervention in imports and exports.
As the debate progresses over the Budget 2025from the bench of the PRO They presented a project called “Accessible technology for Argentines”to remove tariffs on imports of digital devices. The text states that local industrial regimes affected the price of these goods.
The initiative seeks to institute by law one of the modifications that were made Javier Milei in December through the Decree 70/2023: the elimination of State intervention in imports and exports. In addition, the project requests to set in 0% the rate for import duties -corresponding to the Common Nomenclature of MERCOSUR- and emphasizes this criterion in those “computer and telecommunications goods”.
“In the 21st Century Mobile phones and computers have become fundamental tools for economic activity. and social, so making them more expensive hinders development and progress. However, in Argentina, the prices of computers and cell phones can be up to two or three times higher than in the United States, Chile or even Brazil,” says the beginning of the reasoning of the project signed by the deputies. Daiana Fernandez Molero and Alejandro Bongiovanni.
The authors interpret that “although factors associated with the Argentine cost in general, such as logistics, bureaucratic costs or macroeconomic volatility contribute to this disparity, What makes these products more expensive than the rest is the lack of competition in the sector.“.
What the bill says
The bill aims to regulate a modification of the Article 609 of the Customs Code (Law No. 22,415)which is currently in force by presidential decree. The text added by the current administration states in the legislation that “The National Executive Branch may not establish prohibitions or restrictions on exports or imports for economic reasons.“They can only be carried out by law.”
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Later, one of his articles requests to incorporate a reform to the Internal Revenue Law: “The tariff items of the Common Nomenclature of MERCOSUR (NCM) included in headings 8414.5, 8473.3, 8473.4, 8473.5, 8517, 8518, 8544.7 and 9001.1 of the nomenclature are subject to a rate of 0%, regardless of their place of manufacture.”
Among its foundations, and reiterating a claim that arises from different blocks regarding the Tierra del Fuego regimeconsiders that this was “designed to promote local production, it had to be complemented with Trade restrictions and tax differentials that restrict and They make the entry of imported products more expensive or produced outside the island.”
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