The release Minister of Economy and FinanceJosé Salardi, would have promised the export unions to give green light to two initiatives that had been promoting in the fueros of the Congress. One of them is the new Agrarian Promotion Law, also known as Chlimper 2.0 Law, this was stated by the president of the Association of Exporters (ADEX), Julio Pérez Alván.
“Yesterday we had a very good meeting at the Ministry of Economy and Finance along with the MINCETUR. There is good news. The new Minister of Economy is totally plain to review and is convinced that this law (Chlimper 2.0) must be approved. The road has been free so that the Agrarian Promotion Law (…) I repower the sector, “the representative of the export guild celebrated.
The opinion of the new Agrarian Law, on the agenda of the Permanent Commission of Congress, benefits a juicy tax reduction to agro -export companies. In calculations from the Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF), during the management of José Arista, the fiscal cost of this proposal amounts to S/1,850 million annually and S/20,000 million in 10 years of measure.
In a statement published by the MEF last year, it was indicated that tax exemptions would mainly benefit large companies, but not the small agriculture.
MEF would go back and keep the drawback
The second topic of interest for the present guilds (SNI, ADEX, AGAP and COMEX) and exposed in the meeting with the MEF is about the elimination of the drawback, a customs mechanism that returns to the exporters part of the tariffs paid by the importation of the importation of the importation of the importation of raw materials used in local production.
Since its implementation, the drawback has resulted in an incentive for exporting companies, since it allows them to recover part of the costs associated with the importation of inputs.
According to the decree approved in October last year, as of July 1, 2025 and until December 31, the ‘drawback’ rate would be reduced to 0.5%, and from January 1, 2026, It will be totally eliminated, a fact that the business unions regret.
“We all agreed that it is not a good time to Reduce the drawback rate. The weather plays us against and the international geopolitical situation is tense. Therefore, we greet that the Executive will soon issue a Supreme Decree that, in turn, repeals Supreme Decree No. 189-2024-EF, which will keep the simplified regime rate of tariff restitution at 3% (Drawback) ”, Said Pérez Alván.
Figures
The Peruvian agroexportations They amounted to US $ 12,420 million in 2024, which implies an increase of 21.4% compared to 2023 (US $ 10,193 million). These figures reveal a bonanza that enjoys the sector. Even the adex projection for this 2025 aim to reach US $ 13,000 million.
Source: Larepublica
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