In force since May 13, 2026
Customs: a suitability sworn statement instead of prior municipal authorization
GR ARCA 5845/2026 (Official Gazette May 13, 2026)
in forceNATIONAL
Trade opening
RG ARCA 5845/2026 swaps the prior municipal permit for a sworn fitness statement, to open a bonded warehouse and to export from the plant.
The other rules on this subject19
Imports: prior approval to bring in goods is eliminatedRes. 1/2023 Trade Secretariat + Joint GR AFIP-Trade 5466/2023 (Official Gazette Dec 26, 2023)in force
Mercosur–EU ratified: 450 million consumers open up to agriculture and industryLey 27.800 (Official Gazette Feb 26, 2026); provisional application from May 1, 2026in force
Argentina and the US sign their first trade and investment agreementBilateral agreement signed Feb 5, 2026 (no number; pending congressional approval)pending
What changed and who it applies to
What changed
ARCA simplifies two customs regimes by replacing the requirement of prior municipal authorization with a sworn statement of the operator's suitability. It amends GR 4.352 (bonded-warehouse authorization): in point 6 of Annex II, instead of proving the municipal authorization in the applicant's name, the applicant declares that the premises to be authorized are suitable for the goods and comply with municipal, provincial and national regulations. And it amends GR 5.721 (in-plant export cargo regime): it replaces point 2.2 with the same sworn statement of plant suitability, and point 4.1 by setting the validity of enrollments in the regime at FIVE (5) years. It does not exempt from substantive regulatory compliance: it removes the duplication of a prior procedure. verif May 13, 2026 ↗
In force
May 13, 2026, the same day it was published in the Boletín Oficial: the resolution applies “from its publication”. verif May 13, 2026 ↗
Who it applies to
Foreign-trade operators that set up bonded warehouses or join the in-plant export regime: shippers, exporters, customs brokers and exporting industrial plants. Customs stops asking them for the municipal permit as a document of the procedure and replaces it with a sworn statement of competence; the resolution clarifies that this does not exempt them from complying with municipal rules. Membership in the in-plant regime now lasts five years verif. That it cuts authorization time and reaches almost every export project, including the RIGI ones in Neuquén and Río Negro, is our own reading thesis. verif May 13, 2026 ↗
The norm
Resolución General 5845/2026 of the Agencia de Recaudación y Control Aduanero (ARCA, the tax and customs agency), signed on May 12, 2026 and published in the Boletín Oficial on May 13, 2026 (notice 341889), effective from publication. It amends RG 4.352 and RG 5.721. verif May 13, 2026 ↗
Our reading
Concrete customs deregulation (R4 · opening and deregulation): it removes a redundant requirement (prior municipal authorization) and replaces it with a sworn statement, without lowering the substantive standard. It belongs to the family of ARCA simplifications that runs through the program (together with GR 5842 on guarantees by sworn statement). For the export ecosystem it reduces operational friction and the authorization times of logistics infrastructure. thesis
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Where it lands, province by province3
Neuquén To open a bonded warehouse, customs no longer asks for the municipal permit as a document of the procedure: an operator's sworn statement of competence is enough, although municipal rules must still be complied with. Neuquén imports most of its wellsite equipment (rigs, tubing, pumps, spares) and clears it through ports that are not its own: lowering the barrier to setting up a bonded warehouse on the corridor to Añelo makes it cheaper to hold critical stock near the well rather than on the coast. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
Río Negro Two things change here. The Alto Valle packing house that consolidates and seals its container on site joins the scheme with a sworn statement of competence, valid for five years, without filing the municipal permit with customs. And anyone seeking a bonded warehouse in San Antonio Este — the port converting from fruit terminal to project-cargo hub — no longer adds a small municipality's paperwork to the customs file, although it is still bound by its rules. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
Salta Salta already ships product from altitude: Centenario (Eramet) sits in Los Andes, a district of 7,182 inhabitants, and the POSCO and Mariana (Ganfeng) plants, in General Güemes, export from more than 1,500 km from port. Replacing the prior municipal permit with a sworn statement of competence, and giving on-site export clearance a five-year term, removes from the customs file the document signed by the smallest municipality in the chain; the municipal obligation remains. favorable cheaper to respond: investing takes time, held-back supply shows up at once thesis
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