The Government met with the liaison table technicians

This afternoon the technical teams of the Ministry of Agriculture met with those of the liaison table to advance on five specific issues, as agreed in the meeting on Friday between the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, and the agricultural leaders.

In the meeting, which took place in the gray room of the agricultural portfolio, progress was made on five points – including the soybean dollar – and the government agreed to give definitions to farmers at the next meeting, which, for now, is not. they do not have a definite date.

“With this meeting we want to create a good working environment, where the guidelines already proposed in previous meetings are marked”, he said. Giovanni Giuseppe BahilloUndersecretary of Agriculture, and added that “I am convinced of the importance of the sector because it is impossible to think that the country will do well without the production matrix of the countryside”.

One of the main points to be discussed during the meeting was how to improve the system “dollar-soybean” so that producers accelerate bean sales. Manufacturers’ sales are 5 million tonnes (9 percentage points) behind the same date in 2021.

In this sense, Carlos Odriozola, of the Argentine Rural Society, said that “there has been no progress” and the camp “will have to wait for a new meeting”. “There were no details of the new system,” he added.

Similarly, Odriozola expressed the Rural Society’s rejection of the AFIP resolution 5248 on the extraordinary advance in the advance on income published this morning in the Official Gazette. “Since we’re not leaving because there was no solution,” he said.

As for meat exports, Martin Spadaof the Argentine Agrarian Federation, have specified that they have asked for the opening of the government completely exports of meat Y issue cow category C. “It was left to study. For us, the numbers that have stabilized the market but are reluctant,” he said.

Liaison table technicians also said they addressed the dollar arrangement to import fertilizers and increase biodiesel cutting, but there were no concrete advances.

Retentions

The issue of withholdings was not addressed at the meeting. And from the Government they have made it clear that, for now, crop rates will not be changed. But Bahillo himself has left the door open for change in the future. “Not today, but I do not refuse to think about it in a medium-term scheme with a new fiscal matrix that contemplates the incentive of investments and development. Now in the current situation of the public accounts of our country it does not allow us to leave this scheme withholding tax. It’s unthinkable, “the official said before the meeting.