Opportunities cassava export to Argentina

Argentina is one of the agricultural exporting countries leading food, the main export products include soybeans, barley, sunflower seeds, corn, rice and cotton.
The demand for cassava in large Argentina, not only for traditional baking Chipa but also provide raw materials for the food industry (especially in sausage), chemical industry, pharmaceutical and textile industry . Every year, the demand for imports of Argentina reached 300,000 tons.

In 2014, though to minimize the import but the import volume of Argentina starch reached 250,000 tonnes, nearly 3 million.

In particular, imports mainly from Paraguay (65% of turnover and 1.8 million), Brazil, United States, Thailand and Vietnam.

This result is due to Paraguay with many advantages: Bloc Mecosur tariff benefits, favorable geographical position.

Vietnam has exported goods to Argentina a few years ago, the number is very modest, in 2014 was 153 tonnes exported cassava and reached nearly $ 100,000.

Thailand is also the Asian countries export cassava in Argentina, in 2014 exports totaled 112 418 tonnes, nearly $ 600,000.

Argentina have policies promoting cassava production but production by small-scale cooperatives and family should yield not enough for domestic consumption.

On the other hand, the high price of cassava Argentina twice with imported cassava should not encourage people to plant cassava.

Import duties applicable to the countries of starch products and products made from cassava is 10%, particularly in intra Mecorsur is 0%. This is a common problem for foreign investors when commodity exports in Argentina.

Currently, Argentina is in a very difficult period, imports tightened to hold the balance of payments.

While exporters of Vietnam faced many difficulties such as high import duties were applied over the country in the bloc Mecosur, remote geographical distance; but also has many advantages such as: Argentina still needs to import raw materials and competitive price, so we still have the ability to boost exports to Argentina.