Import from Europe
What the agreement changes when buying it in the European Union
Imported from the European Union, it pays 6.4% duty in Argentina today under the agreement, reaching 0% on 1 January 2034.
The position in the NCM, level by level
- Productos farmacéuticos
- Medicamentos (excepto los productos de las partidas 30.02, 30.05 o 30.06) constituidos por productos mezclados o sin mezclar, preparados para usos terapéuticos o profilácticos, dosificados (incluidos los administrados por vía transdérmica) o acondicionados para la venta al por menor
- Los demás
- Los demás
- Extracto de polen
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, 72%. That is what Argentina currently charges on this code from outside Mercosur (extra-zone import duty), with a common external tariff (CET) of 72%, 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 72%, keeping the same preference margin (iTA, artículo 2.4, apartado 7). The figures below already reflect it.
Category «8». Falls in 9 equal stages and reaches zero on 1 January 2034.
Annex line (NCM 2012) 3004.90.91 Medicamentos que contengan extracto de polen, en dosis
Declared today as 3004.90.91 · Same code, unchanged
- Today 6.4%
- Next step down · 1 January 2027 5.6%
- Reaches zero · 1 January 2034
- Without the agreement 7.2%
Year-by-year table, with the exact figure for each stage
| Year | From | Duty |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 · applies today | 1 May 2026 | 6.4% |
| 2027 | 1 January 2027 | 5.6% |
| 2028 | 1 January 2028 | 4.8% |
| 2029 | 1 January 2029 | 4% |
| 2030 | 1 January 2030 | 3.1% |
| 2031 | 1 January 2031 | 2.3% |
| 2032 | 1 January 2032 | 1.5% |
| 2033 | 1 January 2033 | 0.7% |
| 2034 | 1 January 2034 | 0% |
How this line was reached. The annex writes its list in NCM 2012, while imports are declared in the edition in force. This line did not change between the two editions (the official correlation tables do not list it). 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 7 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.
To import and sell in Argentina
- ANMATImportación de especialidades medicinalesCustoms regime: definitive/temporary · Goods: newEl Régimen permite importar a laboratorios, empresas y/o entidades privadas autorizadas por ANMAT especialidades medicinales cualquiera sea el estado de elaboración (productos terminados, granel, acondicionamiento primario, muestra médica, estándares de referencia, muestras para uso en laboratorio, insumos, ingrediente farmacéutico activo, materia prima, excipientes).When it applies: Para mayor informacion, se recomienda verificar los instructivos y formularios en el siguiente link https://www.argentina.gob.ar/anmat/regulados/instructivos-y-formularios
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - ANMATImportación de medicamentos para extranjerosCustoms regime: definitive/temporary · Goods: newEl regimén permite a extranjeros no residentes en el pais a importar medicación para su uso personal.When it applies: Para mayor informacion, se recomienda verificar los instructivos y formularios en el siguiente link.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica (ANMAT) / INAME - Instituto Nacional de Productos MédicosImportación protocolos de emergencia medica de instituciones sanitarias.Customs regime: definitive · Goods: newWhen it applies: Para mayor informacion, se recomienda verificar los instructivos y formularios en el siguiente link: https://www.argentina.gob.ar/anmat/regulados/instructivos-y-formularios
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - Administración Nacional de Medicamentos, Alimentos y Tecnología Médica (ANMAT) / INAME - Instituto Nacional de Productos MédicosRAEM - Régimen de Acceso de Excepción a MedicamentosCustoms regime: definitive · Goods: newEste régimen permite a personas humanas importar medicamentos que no se encuentren registrados ante ANMAT, pero que se encuentren registrados en un país incluído en el Anexo I del decreto 150/92 y que se destinen a tratar a un paciente en particular o que los mismos esten registrados ante ANMAT, pero que no esten disponibles en el país de manera transitoria o permanente o no resulten accesibles a los pacientes por otras razones justificadas.When it applies: Puede obtener más información buscando los trámites de RAEM en Instructivos y formularios.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - 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
Optional: tools, not requirements
- Secretaría de Industria, Comercio y de la Pequeña y Mediana EmpresaRégimen de Imp. de Productos para Tratamiento y/o Proceso de Rehabilitación y/o Capacitación de Personas con Discapacidad (Cocleares)Customs regime: definitive · Goods: newSi necesitás importar mercadería destinada a la rehabilitación, tratamiento y capacitación de personas con discapacidad y verificás que no se fabrique en el país, podés tramitar por Aduana la exención del pago de todos los impuestos.When it applies: Beneficiarios: Personas con discapacidad, a los efectos de su tratamiento y/o proceso de rehabilitación y/o capacitación, y asociaciones e instituciones cuyo objeto sea satisfacer las necesidades de las personas con discapacidad.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Optional - 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.