Carlos Castagnani, From CRA: "30% Goes to Withholdings, and the Result Is that We're Stuck" | News Channel 3-12

By SILVINA ASPREA, CNN en Español Carlos Castagnani, president of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) and member of the Liaison Committee, referred to the extension of the temporary reduction in withholdings only for wheat and barley exports until March 31, and it was decided to exclude other crops such as soybeans and corn, which will thus have higher rates again starting in July. On CNN Primera Mañana, he stated that “it is a positive mea…

By SILVINA ASPREA, CNN en Español Carlos Castagnani, president of the Argentine Rural Confederations (CRA) and member of the Liaison Committee, referred to the extension of the temporary reduction in withholdings only for wheat and barley exports until March 31, and it was decided to exclude other crops such as soybeans and corn, which will thus have higher rates again starting in July. On CNN Primera Mañana, he stated that “it is a positive mea…

The national government launched a new scheme of so-called export duties, known in the economic jargon as “retentions”, from 1 July next, for the fine and thick grains of agricultural production. The Ministry of Economy decided to maintain the current values for wheat and barley until 31 March 2026, while for the coarse grains – soja, maize and sunflower, among others – it will revert to the aliquots in force before the declines of the end of 20…

The government of Córdoba criticized the administration of Javier Milei for the increase of retentions that will govern from June 30 for soy, corn, sunflower and sorghum. "Returning the retentions in July is a wrong decision. Punish the productive interior, discourage investment and put at risk the future of the Argentine agriculture," said the minister of Bioagroindustria Sergio Busso on Wednesday in his X account. See: Martín Llaryora again as…

The Minister of Bioagroindustria of Córdoba, Sergio Busso, questioned the decision of the National Government to suspend the reduction of retentions announced in January and to restore since July the aliquots that governed for products such as soy, corn, sunflower and sorghum. “It is a great injustice. We have sadness and anger. We do not understand that these things happen,” the [...] The post Busso, on the retentions: “the silver of the Cordob…

It happens that the “outsider” turned out to be a political animal and not precisely a rodent, but a predator that goes for the larger part in a process of accumulation of power that is not seen since the time of Nestor Kirchner. The pragmatism or heterodoxy that governs the economic decisions are marked by that process of accumulation. Just as they did not hesitate to continue with the billion dollar of their predecessor in Economics (there was…