Overview

• Government officials met Sept. 29 with the Mesa de Enlace to review the abrupt end of the zero-duty window and discuss INTA, with Sergio Iraeta, Juan Pazo and Pablo Lavigne attending.
• Authorities described the suspension of export duties as an extraordinary, three-day tool to induce foreign-currency liquidation.
• Officials told farm leaders that exporters still need to buy grain and will keep passing through the benefit to growers, as spot soybean prices in Rosario rose ARS 20,000 to ARS 475,000 per ton.
• Producers argued the brief waiver mainly aided major exporters and bypassed many small and medium farmers who had already sold, and they pressed for predictable, long-term tax rules.
• The government announced the restart of dredging on a roughly 30–33 km stretch of the Río Salado between RN 205 and Ernestina and participants said a new INTA board is expected within 5–10 days following a technical meeting.