Import from Europe
What the agreement changes when buying it in the European Union
Imported from the European Union, it enters Argentina duty-free under the agreement, from the start of the agreement (1 May 2026).
The position in the NCM, level by level
- Productos diversos de las industrias químicas
- Preparaciones aglutinantes para moldes o núcleos de fundición; productos químicos y preparaciones de la industria química o de las industrias conexas (incluidas las mezclas de productos naturales), no expresados ni comprendidos en otra parte
- Los demás
- Los demás
- Productos intermedios de la fabricación de antibióticos o de vitaminas u otros productos de la partida 29.36
- Con un contenido de cianocobalamina inferior o igual al 55 % en peso
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, 0%. That is what Argentina currently charges on this code from outside Mercosur (extra-zone import duty), with a common external tariff (CET) of 0%, 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 0%, keeping the same preference margin (iTA, artículo 2.4, apartado 7). The figures below already reflect it.
Category «4». Falls in 5 equal stages and reaches zero on 1 January 2030.
Annex line (NCM 2012) 3824.90.12 Productos intermedios con un contenido de cianocobalamina inferior o igual al 55 % en peso
Declared today as 3824.99.12 · Official correlation table
| Year | From | Duty |
|---|---|---|
| 2026 · applies today | 1 May 2026 | 0% |
| 2027 | 1 January 2027 | 0% |
| 2028 | 1 January 2028 | 0% |
| 2029 | 1 January 2029 | 0% |
| 2030 | 1 January 2030 | 0% |
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. 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.
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 - Subsecretaría de AmbienteAutorización de exportación/importación de productos químicos y artículos comprendidos en el Convenio de EstocolmoCustoms regime: definitive · Goods: newWhen it applies: Artículos que contengan productos químicos alcanzados por la Res. 291/2020 y Res. 451/2019.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory - Subsecretaría de AmbienteSolicitud de exención de productos químicos y artículos comprendidos en el Convenio de Estocolmo - Anexo II y IIICustoms regime: definitive · Goods: newTrámite de solicitud de exención para la producción, importación, comercio y/o uso de el/los productos químicos y/o la producción o importación de los artículos que contengan estos productos químicos comprendidos en la Res. 451/2019 y la Res. 291/2020.When it applies: Artículos que contengan productos químicos alcanzados por la Res. 291/2020 y Res. 451/2019.
The agency's text (in Spanish)
Mandatory
Optional: tools, not requirements
- ANACRegla de tributación para productos del sector aeronáutico.Customs regime: definitive/temporary · Goods: newCertificación de partes o componentes aeronáuticos para su importación bajo arancel "0" según Decreto 2275/94, Regla general tributariaWhen it applies: – El solicitante deberá presentar una declaración jurada con sus datos, los de las partes a importar y especificar si son nuevas o usadas.
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.
- 3824 99 10Petroleum sulphonates, excluding petroleum sulphonates of alkali metals, of ammonium or of ethanolamines; thiophenated sulphonic acids of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, and their salts
- 3824 99 15Ion-exchangers
- 3824 99 20Getters for vacuum tubes
- 3824 99 25Pyrolignites (for example, of calcium); crude calcium tartrate; crude calcium citrate
- 3824 99 30Naphthenic acids, their water-insoluble salts and their esters
- 3824 99 45Anti-scaling and similar compounds
- 3824 99 50Preparations for electroplating
- 3824 99 55Mixtures of mono-, di- and tri-, fatty acid esters of glycerol (emulsifiers for fats)
- 3824 99 61Intermediate products of the antibiotics manufacturing process obtained from the fermentation of Streptomyces tenebrarius , whether or not dried, for use in the manufacture of human medicaments of heading 3004 ( 31 )
- 3824 99 62Intermediate products from the manufacture of monensin salts
- 3824 99 64Other
- 3824 99 65Auxiliary products for foundries (other than those of subheading 3824 10 00 )
- 3824 99 70Fireproofing, waterproofing and similar protective preparations used in the building industry
- 3824 99 75Lithium niobate wafer, undoped
- 3824 99 80Mixture of amines derived from dimerised fatty acids, of an average molecular weight of 520 or more but not exceeding 550
- 3824 99 853-(1-Ethyl-1-methylpropyl)isoxazol-5-ylamine, in the form of a solution in toluene
- 3824 99 86Mixtures consisting mainly of dimethyl methylphosphonate, oxirane and diphosphorus pentaoxide
- 3824 99 92In the form of a liquid at 20 °C ( 70 )
- 3824 99 93Other
- 3824 99 96Other