After 18 years of export tax on wet blue leather and 26 years on salted leather, the Executive Management Committee (Gecex) of the Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex) approved the withdrawal of the tax rate. The request for exclusion was defended by the Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply (MPLS), at the request of the Brazilian Association of Refrigerators (Abrafrigo) endorsed by the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), the National Agriculture Confederation (CNA) Brazilian of Breeders (ABC).
In the MPLS, the understanding was that the export tax was distorting and that the best strategy for the development of production is the adoption of measures aimed at gaining all links in the chain, up to the final product. According to the Secretariat of International Relations of Agribusiness of the ministry, there is a willingness to dialogue with representatives of the sector in order to build a structuring agenda that focuses on the improvement of national leather.
Technical meetings were held with the purpose of listing the elements to support the ministries that integrate Camex (Civil House, General Secretariat of the Press Office, MPLS, Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, External Relations, Finance, Transport and Budget and Management.)
Fungicides
At the meeting, the MPLS defended Adama Brasil’s refusal to raise the import tax rate for the tebconazole technical fungicide, from 2% to 14%, and from that formulated from 8% to 14%. increase in production costs. It is one of the most used pesticides in the country, with application in different cultures, from the smaller scale, such as pineapple, beet, barley, as in the largest, soybean, wheat, corn and rice.
The Committee also rejected Lamberti Brasil Ltda’s decision to increase the rate of dipropylene glycol Dibenzoate, a solvent for insecticide formulation, from 2% to 12%. Dipropylene is used as a diluent of lufenuron, defensive widely used in crops of grains, fruits and vegetables.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.