The Government repealed the Statistical System of Imports (SEDI)

The Government repealed this Tuesday the Statistical System of Imports (SEDI) , which had replaced the System of Imports of the Argentine Republic (SIRA).

The measure was confirmed with the publication in the Official Gazette of the Joint General Resolution 5651/2025 of the Customs Collection and Control Agency (ARCA) and the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce.

However, hours earlier, it had been announced by Luis Caputo in a post on the social network X. "After this repeal, facilitation policies will continue to be implemented, with the aim of ensuring that trade exchanges are carried out in a simple, transparent, efficient and predictable manner, guaranteeing the conditions for their competition," the minister said on Monday.

According to Caputo in the same publication, SEDI “ fulfilled the objectives of normalizing, making transparent, organizing and streamlining the import system.”

In this regard, he added: “The main objective of SEDI was to obtain advance information on import operations and included the analysis and monitoring of statistical data on the import of goods.”

"In this sense, it was determined that it is no longer necessary to collect advance information for statistical purposes ," argued the minister, who congratulated the Secretary of Production Coordination, Pablo Lavigne, and the head of ARCA, Juan Pazos, for developing the measure.

Caputo also assured that "after this repeal, facilitation policies will continue to be implemented, with the aim of ensuring that trade exchanges are carried out in a simple, transparent, efficient and predictable manner, guaranteeing the conditions for their competition."

This is precisely what is confirmed by the document published in the Official Gazette, which also states that, “without any discretion”, the Government seeks to guarantee “the international rules established by the World Trade Organization (WTO)”.

In this regard, he argues that “the cornerstone of the WTO principles is free trade, and from there, fair competition, non-discrimination, predictability and promotion of development” and indicates that “compliance with technical standards should not be a necessary condition for making an import declaration, but rather it should be guaranteed at the time of use and/or marketing, through the controls stipulated for this purpose by the Secretariat of Industry and Commerce, within the framework of its powers.

In this context, in addition to the repeal of the system, it was established that "the declarations registered through the SEDI, in accordance with Joint General Resolution No. 5,466 of December 22, 2023 and its amendment by the former Federal Public Revenue Administration and the former Secretariat of Commerce of the Ministry of Economy, will be void on the date of entry into force of this resolution."