Import from Europe
What the agreement changes when buying it in the European Union
Imported from the European Union, it pays 9% duty in Argentina today (the agreement gives it no preference).
The position in the NCM, level by level
- Pescados y crustáceos, moluscos y demás invertebrados acuáticos
- Pescado fresco o refrigerado, excepto los filetes y demás carne de pescado de la partida 03.04
- Los demás pescados, excepto los despojos comestibles de pescado de las subpartidas 0302.91 a 0302.99
- Los demás
- Sábalos (Prochilodus spp.), tilapias (Tilapia spp., Sarotherodon spp., Danakilia spp.; sus híbridos), surubíes (Pseudoplatystoma spp.), tarariras (Hoplias malabaricus & H. cf. lacerdae), bogas (Leporinus spp.), lisas (Mugil spp.), arapaimas (Arapaima gigas) y pescadillas (Cynoscion spp.)
- Tilapias (Tilapia spp., Sarotherodon spp., Danakilia spp.; sus híbridos)
1 · Argentine duty
What is paid today and every year under the agreement
What Argentina charges, today and every year. Appendix 2-A-2 sets the duty Argentina charges on goods originating in the European Union, and lowers it every 1 January according to each line’s category. Below is the annex line reached from this code, today’s duty and the duty for each year.
Without the agreement, 9%. That is what Argentina currently charges on this code from outside Mercosur (extra-zone import duty), with a common external tariff (CET) of 9%, the same Decree 557/2023 sets, according to the VUCE on 17 October 2026. That is less than the annex base rate, so the agreement’s reduction is computed on that 9%, keeping the same preference margin (iTA, artículo 2.4, apartado 7). The figures below already reflect it.
Line excluded from tariff elimination (category «E»). The base rate still applies under the agreement.
Annex line (NCM 2012) 0302.89.32 Tilapias (Tilapia, Sarotherodon, Danakilia); sus híbridos
Declared today as 0302.89.32 · Official correlation table · the 2012 line was split
and the NCM in force reads Tilapias (Tilapia spp., Sarotherodon spp., Danakilia spp.; sus híbridos)
How this line was reached. The annex writes its list in NCM 2012, while imports are declared in the edition in force. The line follows from Mercosur's official correlation tables (2012 to 2017 and 2017 to 2022), published by Brazil's CAMEX. The 2012 line was broader. When the nomenclature changed it was split into several, and today's code is one of the parts. What the annex sets for that line applies to this part. Intermediate stages follow the agreement’s rule, to a tenth of a point (iTA, Annex 2-A, Section A, paragraph 7). Outside the quotas, for now the importer self-assesses the agreement’s duty (ARCA notice of 7 May 2026), and we found no Argentine rule on how to round the stages, so this sheet truncates to the tenth, as the English text of the agreement says. And the preference is for goods originating in the European Union, with their proof of origin.
2 · Quota and licence
Whether there is a quota and which licence is needed
No quota. This line’s preference applies to any quantity, and the import licence for the agreement’s quotas is not needed.
3 · Agencies
Which agencies are involved and what they require
Argentine agencies involved in the import
The duty comes from the agreement, the rest is required by each agency. The VUCE assigns 5 interventions of other agencies to the import of this position. Each one is shown with the agency’s own text, in Spanish and unabridged, and with the conditions under which it applies. Several only apply in certain cases (wooden packaging, used goods, goods for consumption), and each one says so. Where the origin changes something, each one also states what applies to goods from the EU.
To import and sell in Argentina
- SENASAEmbalajes de Madera de Importación*Customs regime: definitive/temporary · Goods: newFor goods from the European Union: It is the same for any origin: it covers all wooden packaging entering the country. Source: SENASA Resolution 614/2015.Todos los embalajes de madera de mercaderías que ingresen al territorio argentino debe estar descortezado, libre de insectos y/o signos de actividad biológica, tratado y certificado en concordancia con lo estipulado en la Norma Internacional para Medidas Fitosanitarias (NIMF N° 15) de la Convención Internacional de Protección Fitosanitaria.When it applies: La mercadería es acondicionada con embalajes de madera o madera de acomodación.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - SENASAImportación de Productos de Origen AnimalCustoms regime: definitive · Goods: newFor goods from the European Union: It is still required, and the health requirement depends on the country: SENASA sets it for each import according to the risk of the country, the product and the destination, and writes it into the import authorisation, valid for one year. The plant must be approved by the veterinary authority of the country of origin, and each consignment travels with the original health certificate of that authority, which must match the authorisation and be in Spanish or translated by a sworn translator. The certificate model is requested from SENASA: its public query covers only live animals and reproductive material. Source: SENASA Resolution 816/2002, Annex III, points 1, 2, 8, 9 and 24.El trámite permite solicitar autorización para importar productos, subproductos y alimentos para animales.When it applies: Productos, subproductos, derivados de origen animal y alimentos terminados para animales de compañía
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - Subsecretaría de AmbienteDeclaración Jurada para la Actualización del Plantel de Ejemplares Vivos y subproductos de fauna silvestre.Customs regime: definitive/temporary · Goods: newActualización de datos. Condición necesaria para la autorización al tránsito interjurisdiccional, importación, exportación, industrialización, comercialización, de ejemplares vivos, productos y subproductos de fauna silvestre. Esta inscripción no configura habilitación alguna para operar ni sustituye los permisos, autorizaciones e inscripciones que para cada actividad dispongan las autoridades competentes en el ámbito de sus jurisdicciones.When it applies: Registrar a las personas humanas o jurídicas que realicen tránsito interjurisdiccional, comercio con tránsito interjurisdiccional, comercio en jurisdicción federal, importación, exportación y reexportación de ejemplares vivos, productos y subproductos de la fauna silvestre.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - Subsecretaría de AmbienteRegistro Público Único de Operadores de Fauna SilvestreCustoms regime: definitive/temporary · Goods: otherDeben inscribirse en el REGISTRO PÚBLICO ÚNICO DE OPERADORES de FAUNA SILVESTRE todos aquellas personas humanas o jurídicas que realicen tránsito interjurisdiccional, comercio con tránsito interjurisdiccional, comercio en jurisdicción federal, importación, exportación y reexportación de ejemplares vivos, productos y subproductos de la fauna silvestre (Resolución 170/21)When it applies: Para personas humanas o jurídicas que realicen tránsito interjurisdiccional, comercio con tránsito interjurisdiccional, comercio en jurisdicción federal, importación, exportación y reexportación de ejemplares vivos, productos y subproductos de la fauna silvestre.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory
Optional: tools, not requirements
- Secretaría de Industria, Comercio y de la Pequeña y Mediana EmpresaSolicitud Resolución Anticipada de OrigenCustoms regime: definitive · Goods: new/usedWhen it applies: El origen de las mercaderías determina, principalmente, el tratamiento arancelario aplicable a su importación. La Resolución Anticipada de Origen (RAO) permite al importador conocer, antes de llevar adelante sus respectivas importaciones, qué origen va a considerar el Estado Argentino a los fines de aplicar el tratamiento arancelario.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Optional
Source: VUCE, tariff position finder, checked on 6 October 2026. Agencies change their interventions often, so each one links the VUCE page it comes from, to be checked on the day of import.
4 · What this sheet does not cover
What has to be settled separately
- Other taxes. This sheet gives the agreement’s duty. Imports also pay VAT, withholdings and fees that are not part of the agreement and are not computed here: ask the customs broker for the total cost.
- Classification. The importer chooses the code and the customs broker confirms it. If in doubt between two, search by description and compare.
- Origin. The preference is for goods originating in the European Union under chapter 3 of the agreement. A supplier based in Europe is not enough: ask for the statement on origin.
5 · For exporters too
The export sheets of this subheading
The NCM and the EU Combined Nomenclature match in the first six digits. These are the EU lines of this subheading, each with its export sheet.
- 0302 89 10Freshwater fish
- 0302 89 21For the industrial manufacture of products of heading 1604 ( 31 )
- 0302 89 29Other
- 0302 89 31Of the species Sebastes marinus
- 0302 89 39Other
- 0302 89 40Ray's bream ( Brama spp.)
- 0302 89 50Monkfish ( Lophius spp.)
- 0302 89 60Pink cusk-eel ( Genypterus blacodes )
- 0302 89 90Other