Argentina began to collect cabotage transport tolls from Paraguay which affected soybean pass

A few hours before raising their glasses to say goodbye to 2022, the Argentine government proceeded to unilaterally implement the collection of a toll of 1.47 dollars per ton for cabotage transport that circulates through the section Puerto de Santa Fe-Confluencia de la Paraná waterway, which is where the barges with Paraguayan soybeans pass, which are then embarked at port terminals in the Rosario area of influence. The cost of the new toll, as is the case with the rate of US$3.06 per net registered ton shipped in the lower section of the Paraná, must be deducted by the exporting companies from the price of soybeans received by Paraguayan producers, which implies that it became, in fact, a "withholding" applied by one country to another Mercosur country. Paraguayan government officials made different diplomatic and administrative claims before the Argentine government with the purpose of deactivating the measure, but they were unsuccessful. Last week the Paraguayan president ...