the automotive renault argentina has been penalized by the customs with the equivalent of two million dollars for not having returned in time and formed some 15,000 packages in which auto parts arrived and which had entered through the regime of temporary import.
According to the organization he heads William MichelRenault deadlines exceeded which had been granted for the temporary importation of 15,305 packages of parts used for the production of automobiles. And since this delay is framed as an infringement of the Customs Code, he applied customs duties and fines to the company for a total of 453 million pesosequal to just over 2.1 million dollars at the official price.
Renault reported it already paid for everything. Through a press release, the automaker indicated that “the expiry of the terms and the related penalties have been recognized and paid within the terms of the law”.
The parcels in question are the parcels where the imported auto parts arrive inside the containers, which are returned to their respective manufacturers. It is a modality not very different from when a consumer returns the returnable container of a drink. “Sometimes they come back empty and other times with parts that the automaker exports to the country of origin,” industry sources explained.
Even if it’s about goods no commercial valuethe red tape involved in their move ended up costing Renault the equivalent of between three and four days of production of your Alaskan pick up: At a FOB price of $25,000, the $2 million fine that Customs imposed on him represents about 80 units.
Renault Argentina has its factory in the Cordoba city of Santa Isabel, where it manufactures various models such as automobiles Logan, Sandero and Stepwaythe utilitarian Kangoo II and the withdrawal of Alaska. Production of the latter, of which just over 4,900 units were shipped last year, shares the assembly line with the pickup nissan frontierwhich is a partner of Renault worldwide.
For the body chaired by Michel, having identified this infringement and sanctioned the company was a resultas expressed in a statement released this weekend.
“It was over the use of its databases and computer systems that the agency found that a company based in the province of Córdoba (it did not mention Renault in the text) deadlines exceeded which had been granted for the temporary importation of 15,305 packages of parts used in the production of automobiles, thus constituting the infringement envisaged by article 970 of the Customs Code (Transgressions of suspensive destination regimes).
The text continues: “The aforementioned company had been authorized to introduce the goods into Argentina exempt from payment of customs duties with the commitment to re-export them after 240 days (…) There are 744 counterfeit import destinations which led to the customs complaint, requesting payment of $453 million for customs duties and fines”.
Renault, for its part, has emphasized that the scheme in question for these pallet it has recently been modified. “Considering the adjustment of the new regime for the import and export of packaging that serves to preserve the manufacturing parts, situations that constitute infractions may arise to the new systems in place for the control and monitoring of this type of product,” added the automaker.
Source: Clarin
