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updated 2026-08-28
The norm, in detail

Exporting by courier no longer has a USD 3,000 ceiling

ARCA General Resolutions 5883/2026 and 5884/2026 (Official Gazette, Jul 29-30, 2026)
in forceNATIONAL Market deregulation

What changed and who it applies to

What changed
Two general resolutions from ARCA (the former AFIP-Customs) simplify the simplified courier and mail regime for SMEs and entrepreneurs that export and import: (1) General Resolution 5883/2026 removes the USD 3,000 CEILING PER SHIPMENT that applied to EXPORTING through the courier regime — previously, once that value was exceeded the shipment 'fell out' of the simplified system and required a formal export with a full customs declaration (more cost and more time); there is now no value ceiling. (2) General Resolution 5884/2026 replaces General Resolution 4,447 and updates the procedure for international door-to-door postal IMPORTS (ceiling of USD 3,000, personal use, up to 3 units of the same kind): it allows the postal service to arrange with e-commerce platforms for taxes to be paid up front at the time of purchase, lets the recipient validate the declaration before the shipment reaches the country, and lets the postal service represent the recipient before Customs. Both resolutions were signed by Andrés Vázquez (Executive Director of ARCA) on July 29, 2026. They complement Decree 604/2026 (an import allowance set at USD 400, up to 5 shipments a year) and pave the way for General Resolution 5886/2026 (August 3), which regulates postal EXPORTS, not just courier. prob · Jul 29, 2026
In force
In force from publication in the Official Gazette (July 29 or 30, 2026, depending on the case). verif · Jul 30, 2026
Who it affects
SMEs and entrepreneurial exporters that use the simplified courier regime to sell abroad without a formal customs declaration — the same user base that the observatory's satellite-services thesis identifies as customers for logistics and foreign trade in the mining and agro-industrial provinces. Also individual buyers importing by mail or e-commerce (Amazon, Shein, Temu), and Correo Argentino itself, which gains a new role as a tax and customs intermediary. prob · Jul 30, 2026
The norm
Resolución General ARCA 5883/2026 (signed Jul 29, 2026 by Andrés Vázquez; its BO notice has not yet been located first-hand) and Resolución General ARCA 5884/2026 (signed Jul 29, 2026, published in the BO on Jul 30, 2026, notice 345190, replaces RG 4.447). prob · Jul 30, 2026

Our reading

It lowers a real cost of entry for the small exporter: growing beyond USD 3,000 per shipment used to mean jumping to a formal customs regime, more expensive and slower — a wall that penalised precisely the SME that was starting to scale. It is the same trade-opening logic as other prunings in the programme (R4 · opening and deregulation): taking bureaucratic friction out of foreign trade operations, without touching tariffs or the underlying tax regime. thesis

Where it lands, province by province

Applies the same nationwide

We looked at this rule from each of the five provinces we track and found no effect that lands differently in any of them: it applies the same across the country.

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