The head of the Importers Chamber of Argentina, Diego Pérez Santisteban, warned that the new imports controls applied by the government “is complicated,” and affects the bigger companies more than the small and medium ones of the sector.
“The presentation of the information is complicated. We see that the small importers, the ones that had imported less that $500,000 dollars last year, fluently receive their permissions. And those cases that exceed this amount, bigger importers, go through a slower procedure,” Pérez Santisteban continued.
He stated that “what the importer has to do is to present an advanced sworn statement form on imports, which is a procedure that he or a customs officer.”
“Afterwards, this same information has to be sent via email to the Domestic Trade secretariat, and this board will later decide along with the AFIP revenue office if it is approved or not.”
During an interview, Pérez Santisteban considered that “it’s still premature to know which is the criterion used to decide the approval or observation” the government uses.
“Almost 20 percent of the presentations made (since the beginning of February) have observations. That’s why, from now onwards we’ll have to see which is the criteria used to determine the observations made,” he assured.
For those who imported in 2011 for less than half a million dollars, the approval of import will be almost automatic, but it gets complicated for those who import for more than that amount of money
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