The Customs Office announced on Monday (29.08.2022/20/XNUMX) that it is seeking to annul a precautionary measure that allowed the importation of XNUMX million dollars in towels. The measure had already been anticipated by the head of the Economy, Sergio Massa, during his presentation at the Council of the Americas.
Situation reported
The importing company that had invoked "urgency" and obtained on November 26, 2021 a injunction that allowed him to import towels for a value close to 20 million dollarsThe measure was then extended in May of this year. However, the judicial authorization, which is almost a year old, currently has a remaining amount of almost USD 18 million freely available.
Customs Actions
The maneuver was reported by Customs to the Federal Administrative Litigation Court No. 8, which had issued the precautionary measure, requesting that the validity of the same be annulled, demanding that the judicial measure be revoked, objecting to the “risk of delay” invoked by the company, since, until the detection of the maneuver, it had only carried out imports for a value equivalent to a little more than 10% of what had been authorized by the court.
On the other hand, it initiated an investigation into possible trademark fraudThe investigation is in full swing and seeks to determine whether the towels and the rest of the products, in addition to having been entered through a precautionary measure, contain one or more counterfeit elements that replicate a brand without authorization.
In this way, in a coordinated effort with the DGI/AFIP, progress was made in inspections of the company involved in the mega-importation of towels. The results were striking and replicated what happened with the importer that gave up its precautionary measures to other brands: opaque documentation, incomplete submissions to the tax authorities (which in that case, even led to actions by the IGJ, which considered it a “ghost company”) and the appearance of a company without the solvency to carry out this type of foreign trade operations.
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