Ministry of Economy Reduces Controls on Imports Subject to Antidumping Measures

On April 8, through Resolution 154, the Ministry of Economy requested the General Directorate of Customs that the control of imports for end use of certain goods subject to antidumping measures or processes be carried out in accordance with the general selectivity assignment criteria, according to the procedure established by the General Directorate Resolution 44 of April 29, 1998. It also requested that the customs risk analysis be done according to the Argentine Tax Authority’s (AFIP) General Resolution 2605 of May 5, 2009.
Resolution 154 repealed Resolution 366/2020 of the former Ministry of Productive Development, which had established that all goods subject to antidumping or compensatory duties—regardless of their declared origin and/or which were subject to an investigation including a preliminary determination of existence of dumping—should go through the "red channel" of Customs. 

The Resolution includes an Annex with a list of the anti-dumping resolutions in force at the time of its issuance, to identify the products that will no longer be subject to intensified controls. In this sense, it includes all anti-dumping measures and investigations.
To ground the issuance of the Resolution, the Ministry of Economy argued that it was necessary to adapt the regulations in force so that the General Directorate of Customs can assign the corresponding criteria regarding the selectivity channels, facilitating the agility of the flow of foreign trade and maintaining an adequate level of control.

The previous regulations caused certain goods to be “frozen” at Customs due to delays in their delivery. As the Ministry of Economy explained, the objective of the resolution is to simplify the commercialization processes by eliminating the obligation for certain goods to go through the "red channel" of Customs, which required an exhaustive control that caused costs and delays for the importing companies.