Global Courant 2023-05-02 16:46:30
The products derived from these chains must maintain local supply and jobs to access the benefit of $300 for the currency.
Through resolution 162/2023 published today in the Official Gazette, the national government incorporated the products derived from the yerba mate (Ilex paraguariensis) and goat meat chains to the list of products included in the Export Increase Program ( PIE) that offers a dollar at $300 for foreign sales.
Like other products of the regional economies, they must meet the eligibility requirements that include maintaining or increasing the supply to the domestic market and the generation of employment, and having exported in the eighteen months prior to the entry into force of Decree 576 of December 9. April 2023 confirming the new edition of the PIE. In addition, it will have to be part of the Fair Prices program or agreements established by the National Secretariat of Commerce for the local market.
In this way, the new products are added to a long list that includes sunflower complexes and derivatives, fodder barley, sorghum, popcorn, peanuts, legumes, rice, citrus fruits, tobacco, sheep meat, tea, wines, and olives. , beekeeping, forestry, wool, pears, apples, plums, blueberries, kiwi, dry and fine fruits, onions, garlic and other vegetables.
A Through these stimulus programs,” it seeks to promote territorial roots, value added, industrialization at source and the increase in exports through harmonious socioeconomic development, among the different links of the value chains of regional economies “, explains the resolution. And he adds that to determine the scope of the measure, the consideration of “the heterogeneity in productivity, the insertion in the world and the productive matrix of the different chains” was “especially relevant”.
The yerba mate sector had been asking to be included in this program. They wanted a recomposition of the price at the end of the mill to be able to cover the values that the Secretary of Agriculture set at the beginning of this month through an award for the raw material, with an increase of more than 52% for the green leaf and the canchada.
Misiones and Corrientes, the only two provinces where yerba mate is produced, export some 40 million kilos a year. Last year, 39,825 tons left for foreign markets, with an average value of 2,183.3 dollars per ton, generating income of just over 87 million dollars.
