You're Importing From Several Countries to Manufacture in Argentina. Is Paying Them All as Simple as It Should Be?
Until April of this year, the Factory Customs Regime (which allows companies to temporarily import inputs and components duty-free, to manufacture goods that are later exported) was reserved almost exclusively for the auto industry. A recent decree extended it to the entire production chain.
If your company exports, this is a real opportunity to seize right now.
If it doesn’t, the regime won’t apply to you directly, but the underlying problem that makes it hard to take advantage of is exactly the same one you already have, whether you export or not: paying multiple overseas suppliers, in different currencies, without losing track of who got paid what.
What the UIA keeps confirming, month after month
Argentina’s Industrial Union has spent years pushing access to foreign currency for paying inputs to the top of its agenda with the government not as a one-off complaint, but as an issue its own Trade and International Negotiations Department raises again and again.
When a chamber keeps coming back to the same point, that’s not background noise: it’s confirmation that this is the sector’s real bottleneck, more so than production itself.
If your company exports and can use the expanded RAF regime, that bottleneck matters even more now: every week it takes to sort out payments to foreign suppliers is a week less spent capitalizing on an edge your competitors might be eyeing too. But even if you don’t export, the same bottleneck is still there, regime or no regime.
Three versions of the same problem, depending on how your operation is set up
| Your situation | Where it gets stuck |
|---|---|
| You already have an ERP running for production and inventory | Payments to foreign suppliers are still a separate process, handled manually, outside the system that controls everything else |
| You’re about to qualify for the expanded RAF regime for the first time | You don’t yet have a payment flow built for duty-free temporary imports: you’ll need to build one from scratch, fast |
| You run multiple plants or product lines | Each one imports from different suppliers, in different countries, with no consolidated view of who got paid what and when |
None of these three get solved by adding more people to check spreadsheets.
What this looks like integrated
With B2B2X, none of these three situations depend on a process running parallel to the system you already use:
- OAuth2 authentication, with service-level access for your organization, connecting supplier payments to the same workflow that already controls production and inventory.
- A master account with sub-accounts by plant, product line, or supplier, each with its own balance.
- Quote endpoints that show you the cost of a conversion before you execute it.
- An audit log for every payment, available inside your own system useful both for the traceability the Central Bank now requires and for building the documentation the RAF regime demands, without reconstructing it by hand after every transaction.
This isn’t an integration built only for companies that already export. It’s used both by companies qualifying for the expanded RAF regime and by others that simply need to get payments to multiple overseas suppliers under control.
(If integration isn’t what your operation needs right now, we also offer a ready-to-use business account, no development required.)
Whether you export or not, the problem of paying multiple overseas suppliers is the same. Book a technical call with the B2B2X team, and we’ll see how quickly you could get this up and running.