In force since Dec 21, 2023
Sugar: the law on domestic-market delivery quotas falls
DNU 70/2023, art. 156
in forceNATIONAL
Market deregulation
Article 156 of DNU 70/2023 repeals Ley 18.770, from 1970, which allowed domestic-market quotas to be assigned to mills that changed operator.
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What changed and who it applies to
What changed
DNU 70/2023, in its article 156 (Title VI «Bioeconomía»), repealed Ley 18.770 of 1970, which its recitals call the «regime of sugar deliveries for consumption in the domestic market» verif. That law was narrow: it allowed the enforcement authority to assign domestic-market sugar delivery quotas to mills that changed operator or received production capacity from another establishment in the same area, until the month after the end of the harvest and in proportion to the quotas of their last three months verif. The repeal still stands: a DNU only loses validity if both chambers reject it (Ley 26.122), and in March 2024 only the Senate rejected it prob. thesis It is one more piece of the deregulation of the NOA sugar economy (Tucumán, Salta, Jujuy), with limited practical effect: the repealed law regulated only cases of transfers of mills or of capacity. verif Dec 20, 2023 ↗
In force
Decree signed on Dec 20, 2023 (primary-source header: 'City of Buenos Aires, 12/20/2023', signed MILEI) and published in the Official Gazette on Dec 21, 2023 (notice 301122). Note: the operative articles do NOT contain an express 'within 8 calendar days' validity clause (arts. 360-366 are substantive and closing articles: 365 'report to the Bicameral Committee', 366 'be it communicated'). The Dec 29, 2023 entry-into-force date comes from the SUPPLEMENTARY RULE of the Civil and Commercial Code (art. 5: laws take effect 8 days after publication if they set no time) and from convergent press, NOT from a verbatim clause of the DNU. The repeal of Ley 18.770 was not judicially suspended (unlike the labor chapter of the same DNU) and is in force as of the consultation date. verif Dec 21, 2023 ↗
Who it applies to
With Ley 18.770 repealed, the enforcement authority loses the power to assign domestic-market sugar delivery quotas to mills that change operator or receive production capacity from another establishment in the same area verif. thesis It reaches the NOA sugar chain (Tucumán, Salta and Jujuy): mills, the cane growers who supply them and domestic supply, which loses an administrative tool for mill transfers. The practical effect is limited, because the law did not set a general quota for all mills. thesis Dec 20, 2023
The norm
DNU 70/2023 (DNU-2023-70-APN-PTE), 'Bases para la Reconstrucción de la Economía Argentina', Title VI 'Bioeconomía', art. 156 ('Derógase la Ley N° 18.770' — Ley 18.770 is repealed). The article was read in the full operative text of the primary source (Infoleg, rule id 395521), which sets out all 366 articles. Contiguous block confirmed: art. 154 Ley 26.737, art. 155 Ley 18.600, art. 156 Ley 18.770, art. 157 Ley 18.905. Ley 26.736 (newsprint) is repealed by art. 11, in a separate article. verif Dec 20, 2023 ↗
Our reading
The State loses the power to assign quotas of domestic-market sugar to mills that change operator or receive capacity from another establishment. It is deregulation of a regional economy (R4 · opening and deregulation): a 1970 intervention falls that administered supply by quota in those transfers. The practical effect is limited, because the law did not set a general quota for all mills. It adds to the same DNU's prohibition on restricting foreign trade: NOA sugar is enabled to seek better prices abroad. thesis
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Where it lands, province by province1
Salta Salta's farming sector is 11.97% of provincial GDP and food and beverage processing 4.54%: together, almost six times mining (2.81%). With Ley 18.770 repealed, the authority can no longer assign domestic-market quotas to the mills of the NOA — Salta among the three provinces in the chain — when they change operator or receive capacity from another establishment. It is deregulation of the sector that in Salta really is large, not the one that gets the headlines. favorable opening and deregulation thesis
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