COVID - 19 - Foreign trade: new measures to guarantee the supply of critical medical supplies

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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