Recent trade negotiations between Brazil and Argentina are leading to an automatic withdrawal of existing market permits. Since June, the markets expect the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade to be lenient on the newly established rules.
Imported products now fall under the inspection and the fiscal policies of the MAPA, a change that has tightened trade restrictions. According to Brazil's Ministry of Agriculture, the Brazilian government has implemented new regulations concerning phytosanitary demands.
Benedito Rosa del Espíritu Santo director of Foreign Trade at the Ministry, signals that with the import of fruit and vegetables, measures have to be taken to meet the demands of a control system, designed to prevent plague and disease hazards on Brazilian territory.
The freedom to import Argentinian fruit is part of an informal agreement between secretaries Tatiana Placeres of Brazil’s Foreign Trade and Argentine's Beatriz Paglieri, during the Mercosur Presidential Summit last week. The two countries have agreed to a mitigation of trade restrictions concerning imported goods.