COVID - 19 - Foreign trade: new measures to guarantee the supply of critical medical supplies
Foreign trade: new measures
to guarantee the supply of critical medical supplies
Decree 455/2020, published on May 11th,
2020 and in force as of May 12, amended the Annex of Decree 333/2020 -which
reduced the extra-zone import tariff (that applies to imports outside Mercosur)
to 0% and exempted the payment of the statistical fee for the import of certain
sanitary supplies- so as to expand the list of supplies. The Annex of exempted
products now includes portable syringes and needles, other types of ethyl
alcohol, more surgical clothing, in vitro diagnostic reagents for the detection
of COVID-19, portable insulin infusers, medical stretchers and lancets for
vaccination and cautery, among others.
For more information on the merchandise
and its tariff position, please refer to the Annex to the Decree, available
(only in Spanish) here