Ministers from the Foreign Trade Chamber (Camex) on Tuesday (18) agreed to the decision of the Executive Management Committee (Gecex) to withdraw the export tax on wet blue leather and salted leather. The decision had been made to the committee in a meeting on August 30. And it will be discussed again within a year.
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.
Camex, Civil House, General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic, MPLS, Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services, Foreign Affairs, Finance, Transportation and Budget and Management.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.