Argentina: They asked to remove a tariff for the sale of strawberries to the US

Published 2022년 10월 22일

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The Provincial Government of Tucuman, Argentina, along with the Institute for Productive Development (IDEP), has appealed to the United States to reinstate the Generalized System of Preferences (SGP), a program that could allow for the re-export of Tucuman strawberries to the US with no tariff. Currently, strawberry exports to the US are subject to an 11.2% duty. The request was made during a meeting with the US Deputy Assistant to the USTR, Laura Buffo, representing 18 of the 27 countries seeking the restoration of tariff benefits from the US. The IDEP emphasized the need for this preference system to help the strawberry sector regain competitiveness.

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Re-export Tucuman strawberries to the United States with "zero tariff". This was the request formalized by the Provincial Government, through the technical presentation made by the Institute for Productive Development (IDEP), during a recent meeting of the Alliance for the Generalized System of Preferences (SGP). This body, made up of 27 developing countries -among them Argentina- calls on the United States to restore the GSP, a program that allows products to be exported to the North American market with tariff benefits. This scheme is currently discontinued. During the meeting, which took place at the Thai Embassy in Washington, the delegation of the Provincial Government -headed by the first vice president of the Legislature, Regino Amado- requested before the North American authorities, and on behalf of Argentina, the reactivation of the SGP. To argue the request, the case of the Tucuman strawberry whose main export destination is the United States, which receives 86% of ...

Source: Suenaacampo