Overview
- The change completes the schedule in Decree 333/25, which cut the duty from 16% to 8% in May 2025 before eliminating it entirely.
- Officials say stronger competition should lower prices, though they acknowledge the effect will not be automatic.
- Industry projections cluster around 10%–25%, and some retailers expect clearer impacts as new, duty‑free shipments replace existing stock in the weeks ahead.
- The UOM Río Grande warns the measure endangers Tierra del Fuego’s electronics production, citing roughly 8,500 jobs at risk.
- Remaining taxes such as 21% VAT and 9.5% internal levies, logistics and high smuggling rates—about one in three phones—could blunt pass‑through, even as some sellers pre‑adjusted prices; related measures also scrapped internal taxes for goods made in Tierra del Fuego and reduced them for imported TVs and consoles.