. /.   WORLD TRADE  
ORGANIZATION  G/LIC/Q/ARG/7/Add.1 
27 October 2009 
 
 (09-5322) 
Committe on Import Licensing Original:   Spanish 
  
 
IMPORT LICENSING SYSTEM OF ARGENTINA 
 
Questions to ARGENTINA from PERU
 
 
Addendum  
 
  The following communication, dated 19 October 2009, is being circulated at the request of the delegation of Peru.  
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 A. Peru wishes to put the following questions to Argentina in the light of Argentina's replies to 
the questions posed by Peru at the last meeting of the WTO Committee on Import Licensing (G/LIC/Q/ARG/9) on 30 April and the most r ecent notifications submitted by Argentina, in 
particular document G/LIC/N/2/ARG/18: 
 1. With regard to question 1(a) in document G/LIC/Q/ARG/9, Argentina states that the 
increased number of products covered by the non-au tomatic licensing mechanism is explained by the 
volatility of the international market.  Could Ar gentina please explain the relationship between the 
volatility of the international market and the pur pose of its non-automatic licensing procedure which 
is to establish a pre-release verification mechanism to monitor and control imports of certain goods 
(section (g) of notifications G/LIC/N/2/ARG/12,  G/LIC/N/2/ARG/12/Add.1, G/LIC/N/2/ARG/16 and 
G/LIC/N/2/ARG/18)? 
 Does this relate to Argentina's reply to the question posed by the United States, the European 
Communities, Canada, China and Japan (G/LIC/Q/ARG /8), which referred to the need to extend the 
coverage of the system of non-automatic licences to  certain tariff lines corresponding to products that 
were sensitive to the changes in trade flows caused by the world economic and financial crisis?  Could 
Argentina please explain what specific criteria it uses to  determine that a tariff line is "sensitive" to 
fluctuations?  
2. With regard to question 1(c), could Argentina please explain what other procedures it has 
considered in order to achieve the objective of  monitoring and controlling imports, and why it 
believes that non-automatic import licensing is the most appropriate and least trade-restrictive system? 
3. Regarding question 2, why are applications fo r non-automatic import licences now examined 
simultaneously rather than on a first- come, first-served basis as before? 
B. In some cases, the Ministry of Producti on of Argentina requires the following additional 
information in order to issue an import certificate for miscellaneous products ( Certificado de 
Importación de Productos Varios , CIPV): 
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  (1) Brochures pertaining to and description of the goods that are the subject of the 
application. 
(2) Process diagram showing the entire production cycle of the goods referred to in (1). 
(3) Details of the inputs used. 
(4) The origin of the inputs used and their re lative share in the final production cost. 
(5) Full list of the products manufactured by the producing/exporting company. 
 In this regard, Peru wishes to know how such  additional information contributes to achieving 
import licensing objectives, taking into account that that  this could run counter to Article 1.5 of the 
Agreement on Import Licensing Procedures, which states that:   "5. Application forms and, where applicable, renewal forms shall be as simple as 
possible.  Such documents and information as are considered strictly necessary  for the proper 
functioning of the licensing regime may be required on application ." 
 
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