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Ref : EIC 411/2
9 June 2009
Dear Sirs,
Commercial Information Circular No. 297/2009
Argentina : Non-automatic Import Licensing Requirements
The Argentine Government has all along maintained a non-automatic import licensing system on a range of products such as footwear, paper products, bicycles, household goods, toys, tyres and tubes, motorcycles, certain yarns, fabric and apparel products, machinery and tools and miscellaneous manufactured articles, etc. The product list is subject to modifications from time to time and traders were informed via Commercial Information Circulars (CIC) No. 234/2007 of 12 June 2007, No. 394/2007 of 26 October 2007 and No. 622/2008 of 10 December 2008 of the changes.
2. In the past few months, Argentina announced several amendments to the existing non-automatic licensing regimes for certain textiles and apparel, machinery and tools and household goods, and introduced new licensing requirements for imported tires, certain miscellaneous products and certain screws. Details of the arrangements and products involved can be retrieved from the relevant Argentine Resolutions available from the following webpages:
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Resolution on the establishment of non-automatic import licensing requirement for tires (effective from 23 January 2009) and it subsequent amendment (effective from 24 April 2009).
- http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/145000-149999/149655
/texact.htm- http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/150000-154999/152613
/norma.htm
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Resolution on amendment to the non-automatic import licensing requirements for certain textiles and apparel, machinery and tools and household goods, and establishment of non-automatic import licensing requirement for certain miscellaneous products (effective from 25 March 2009) and the subsequent amendments (effective from 16 April 2009 and 5 May 2009 respectively):
- http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/150000-154999/151044
/texact.htm- http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/150000-154999/152231
/norma.htm- http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/150000-154999/152233
/norma.htm
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Resolution on the establishment of non-automatic import licensing requirement for screws and the like products (effective from 7 June 2009):
- http://www.infoleg.gov.ar/infolegInternet/anexos/150000-154999/153507
/norma.htm
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To clarify the relevance of the new requirements to their exports to Argentina and/or to obtain further information on the detailed requirements, traders are advised to approach their importers in Argentina for the relevant details.
ENQUIRIES
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For enquiries concerning the content of this circular, please contact Miss S Y TANG at telephone number 2398 5405.
Yours faithfully,
(Miss WONG Ying)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry
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