BUENOS AIRES, Dec 24 (Reuters) - Argentine Agriculture Minister Luis Basterra has began speaking w
BUENOS AIRES, Dec 24 (Reuters) – Argentine Agriculture Minister Luis Basterra has began speaking with farmers about the opportunity of making use of decrease grains export taxes to growers situated farther from ports, a spokesman for the ministry informed Reuters on Tuesday.
“It is a chance that can proceed to be mentioned in concrete phrases between the federal government and the farming organizations that met with the minister yesterday,” an Agriculture Ministry spokesman informed Reuters by phone.
The brand new authorities, inaugurated two weeks in the past, has signed a regulation elevating the tax on soybean exports to 33% from about 25%, whereas worldwide shipments of corn and wheat are taxed at 15%, up from about 7% beforehand.
Basterra met with farm leaders on Monday. He later informed native newspaper La Nacion {that a} segmentation to export tax charges was below dialogue. “We talked about a number of issues dealing with regional economies,” based on an article revealed by La Nacion on Tuesday.
“We’ve to…