Foreign trade entities requested on Friday (08.09.2023) to the Undersecretary of Commercial Policy and Management, Germán Cervantes, an urgent meeting jointly with the General Director of Customs, Guillermo Michel, to discuss various issues that have a “highly negative” impact on the sector.
“Due to the current context that the Foreign Trade of the Argentine Republic is going through, we find ourselves with the urgent need to hold a meeting with both government agencies as soon as possible in order to discuss various issues that have a highly negative impact on the daily activities of Foreign Trade Operators and Users," the note states.
In this regard, the organizations urge the authorities to hold a meeting to discuss an agenda of Topics which include “the lack and delay in the approval of SIRA declarations and SIRASE applications, inability to access the Free Exchange Market (MLC) due to lack of information and/or data necessary to do so, such as information regarding the MLC Terms and Dates assigned to SIRA declarations within the “MOA-Reengineering” service as well as the Approval Date of the SIRASE declaration in the respective system, forced deferral of the terms assigned in a timely manner in the Final Date of access to the MULC, incorporation of the Approval Date of the SIRASE application in order to facilitate the analysis of the calculation of the respective term, systemic inconsistencies in the Financial Economic Capacity (CEF) assigned to Importers, frequent systemic outages of the interactive service “SC-Contact Request”, for prolonged periods of several days, among others”.
The signatories of the petition are as follows: organizations:
- AAACI (Argentine Association of International Freight Agents)
- AIERA (Association of Importers and Exporters of the Argentine Republic)
- ATACI (Argentine Association of International Cargo Transporters)
- CAC (Argentine Chamber of Commerce and Services)
- CACIPRA (Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Production of the Argentine Republic)
- CAME (Argentine Confederation of Medium-sized Enterprises)
- CATARA (Customs Transport Agents Center of the Argentine Republic)
- CDA (Customs Clearance Center of the Argentine Republic)
- CERA (Chamber of Exporters of the Argentine Republic)
- CGERA (General Business Confederation of the Argentine Republic)
- CIRA (Chamber of Importers of the Argentine Republic)
- CN (Navigation Center)
- FADEEAC (Argentine Federation of Cargo Transport Business Entities)
- FECACERA (Federation of Foreign Trade Chambers of the Argentine Republic)
- PAETAC (First Association of Motor Freight Transport Entrepreneurs)
- UIPBA (Industrial Union of the Province of Buenos Aires)
The private sector expressed its "willingness to collaborate as members and business operations."
Last May, foreign trade entities had already held a meeting with the authorities to discuss the same problems facing the sector.
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