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4.7. Following a decline in 2018, as a result of lower prices and a sharp fall in the volume of exports, soyabean and soya-product exports recovered in 2019, totalling USD 16,476 million (USD 15,054 million in 2018) and accounting for 26% of total exports (24.4% in 2018). (...) biodiesel exports totalled USD 775 million (USD 971 million in 2018). In 2020, exports fell, since production had been hit by the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: exports from the soya production value chain totalled USD 14,382 million, 12.7% less than in 2019. (...) biodiesel exports totalled USD 468 million.

4.11. In the case of biodiesel, Decree No. 486/2018 set an export duty rate of 15%, which replaced the rate of 8% set at the start of January 2018 by Decree No. 1.025/2017, which had, in turn, abolished the system of sliding export duty rates established by Decree No. 1.719/2012. In addition to that rate, Decree No. 793/2018 added a rate of 12% and Decree No. 230/2020 replaced it with a rate of 30% (...).

Table 4.1 Duties on soya beans, and on soya flours, meals and oils
Period: 31/12/2014;17/12/2015 to 31/12/2017; 1/172018 to 31/8/2018; 31/08/2018; 04/09/2018; 04/03/2020; 05/10/2020
Biodiesel NCM 3826.00.00: Sliding duty; Sliding duty 0.0%; 8%; 15%; 12%a + 15%; 30%; 29%b

4.13. The maize value chain is organized on the basis of primary production of the grain, followed by successive stages of processing, characterized by a diverse range of products and technologies. (...) The production of bioethanol from maize has been increasing continuously since 2012.

4.34. In 2017, MAGyP's Unit for Rural Change (UCAR) was shut down. (...) UCAR was also accredited as a national project implementation body (ENIP) by the Climate Change Resilience Fund (FACC) and by the Green Climate Fund (FVC). Its activities have been taken over by DIPROSE, (...) The most significant programme in the DIPROSE portfolio is the provincial agricultural services programme (PROSAP), which implements socially and environmentally sustainable public investment projects at the provincial and national levels, thereby increasing the coverage and quality of rural infrastructure and of agri-food services (see below).

4.38. The National Agricultural Technology Institute (INTA) - a decentralized MAGyP body, created by Decree-Law No. 21.680/56 - develops innovations in both research and extension in Argentina's various value chains, regions and territories, in order to enhance the country's competitiveness, the sustainable development of its rural areas, and the living conditions of its rural families.(...).

Table 4.3 Rates of export duty on the main agricultural products and by-products, January 2021
NCM: 3826.00.00
NCM hs2017: 3826.00.00
Designation: Biodiesel and mixtures
Export duty: 29

4.48. In 2018, the [Declaraciones Juradas de Ventas al Exterior] DJVE requirement for grains and oil seeds and their by-products was suspended, at first temporarily and, subsequently, until further notice. In 2019, this requirement was also abolished for exports of organic products, as defined by Law No. 25.127 on ecological or organic production. (...).

4.51. According to Argentina's latest notification to the WTO, submitted in September 2019 and covering the 2014-15 (1 December to 30 November), 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons, domestic support for research, pest and disease control, training services, extension and advisory services, inspection services, and infrastructure services was granted to the Special Tobacco Fund (FET) and to the Federal Support Programme for Sustainable Rural Development (PROFEDER). All these green box measures amounted to ARS 883.1 million (at the 1992 value) in the period 1 December 2016 to 30 November 2017(...).

4.62. Every year, MAGyP, through DIPROSE, runs a series of programmes to facilitate, fund and promote agricultural activity, and innovation and development in production. Examples include: the forestry sustainability and competitiveness programme (SyCF); (...) the project for the promotion of biomass-derived energy (PROBIOMASA); (...).