The strange package of Brazilian sugar that appeared in a supermarket and put the entire Argentine sugar sector on alert

This Monday, at the inauguration of the electricity cogeneration plant of the Tucumán sugar mill La Florida, one of the gossips of the guests linked to the sugar sector of Tucumán, including Governor Osvaldo Jaldo, was the surprising appearance of a few packages of sugar of Brazilian origin in one of the Coto supermarkets in the city of Buenos Aires. Why so much concern? For those who do not remember, sugar is one of the products historically excluded by Argentina from the Mercosur tariff agreement, because Brazil is the largest producer and exporter of this product in the world and by only dumping a small portion of its production in the country it would cause the collapse of the entire sugar industry in the NOA. That is why the zero tariff does not apply here and protective tariffs must be paid that are supposed to make imports prohibitive. Unless, of course, the new government of Javier Milei decides to throw overboard this tariff protection to favor imports and thus achieve ...