The National Customs Directorate seized in the last three months 4.557 tires worth an estimated $320 million, merchandise that was attempted to be brought into the country by different methods to conceal and hide its contents.
The agency stated, in a statement released this Monday (26.09.2022/XNUMX/XNUMX), that the attempt to enter the tires took different methods and detailed the following examples: hidden in grains, inside other covers, parcels, cargo transport and pellets wrapped in black polypropylene to cover its contents.
The Customs Office also noted that "the actions carried out are part of the policies of the agency led by Guillermo Michel, who since his appointment has imposed the need to generate risk perception."
To this end, the agency "attacks the informal economy resulting from the sale of goods illegally brought into the national territory, as well as attacking the unfair competition of importing companies in the tire industry, which make abusive use of precautionary measures in order to overstock based on an official dollar, clearly threatening national production and employment," according to the statement.
Recent operations
According to the most recent operations, Customs seized 287 decks in a parcel transport in Paraná y 12 decks hidden inside the wheels of a car in Concord, both locations in the province of Entre Ríos.
En Concord, and eThe Salto Grande Border Crossing, specialized agents of the General Directorate of Customs-AFIP carried out a procedure that consisted of the control of a Peugeot Partner vehicle (Argentine registration) entering the country, detecting that it was transporting 12 undeclared new tires. The covers were hidden in the 4 rolling wheels and in 2 spare wheels; each wheel had an additional cover inside.
This was detected because The auxiliary wheels were very heavy and after being checked with the luggage scanner it was observed that they had an extra cover inside. For this reason, the merchandise and the vehicle were seized for violating Law 22415.
Also, in another procedure in Paraná, on Route 12, near La Paz, customs agents seized, last night with the collaboration of the Gendarmerie, 287 vehicle covers of foreign origin without customs endorsement, when inspecting a truck from the parcel delivery company Vía Cargo.
Regarding such operations in the province of Entre Ríos, Customs reported that the Federal Court of Paraná intervened. The seized merchandise was deposited in the GNA Section of La Paz, with an estimated value of 13.250.000 pesos.
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