The Argentine Government authorized this Friday (20.10.2023) the operation of a free trade zone in the province of Jujuy (north) that will be key to boosting industrial export and wholesale trade activity.
The measure was published through the General Resolution 5435/2023 of the Federal Public Revenue Administration (AFIP), whose text provides for the operation of the Perico free zone, Located twenty kilometers (20 km) from the city of San Salvador de Jujuy, in the El Carmen department, Jujuy Province on National Route No. 66.
In addition, the rule defines the limits of the free zone - a total of 111.122,74 square meters - and the Primary Customs Zone, under the jurisdiction of the Jujuy Customs, of 12.072,50 square meters.
According to AFIP, the Perico free trade zone was authorized after the concessionaire company (Jujuy Energía y Minería) fulfilled its obligations under the specifications for its construction and operation.
" Jujuy Customs stated that the minimum and essential infrastructure requirements required for the establishment of the free zone and the delimitation of the Primary Customs Zone are met," the recitals indicate.
Free zones are designed for the development of commercial activities, promoting investment and the generation of local employment. In this sense, Law 24.331 provides that each province can establish a Free Zone, promoting regional economic activities. Areas that will have the possibility of being used for marketing, storage or industrial/production.
It should be noted that free zones are areas in which merchandise is not subject to the usual control of the customs service and, both its import and export, are not subject to taxes or economic prohibitions, according to Law 22.425/1981 and Law 24.331/1994. Likewise, General Resolution 270/98 and its amendments establish operational and regulatory frameworks for these areas that are outside the Customs Territory. Namely:
Authorized and prohibited activities
- In the Free Zone, the following activities will be considered authorized and prohibited: those provided for as such by Law No. 24.331 and those provided for by
the rules that are dictated. - Storage and commercial activities may be carried out through their sale.
accredited through an invoice issued by the user, for services and industrial purposes. - In this sense, in the Free Trade Zone the goods may be subject to of :
a) the operations necessary to ensure its conservation and manipulations
ordinary, intended to improve their presentation or commercial quality or to condition them
for transportation, such as dividing or gathering packages, batch formation,
sorting or repackaging;
b) transfer;
c) repair solely for the purpose of returning the merchandise to its original state
so that it can normally perform its function;
d) transformation, elaboration, combination, mixture, or any other
improvement, with the sole purpose of exporting the resulting merchandise to other
countries. When it comes to capital goods manufactured in the Free Zone that do not register
production history in the General Customs Territory or in the areas
existing special customs authorities, their importation into said territory shall be authorized.
The Secretariat of Industry, Commerce and Mining will provide the corresponding authorizations for the importation for consumption in the Customs Territory of capital goods manufactured in the Free Trade Zone when there is no record of production in said territory. - In the Free Zone is prohibido: a) dwell, b) retail sales, except with special authorization from the Executive Branch, and c) the consumption of merchandise, except when it is inherent to the activity of the Free Trade Zone and when it concerns provisions for personnel providing services therein.
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