Integration Blocs
Chilean restrictions affect Argentine and Paraguayan corn exports Chile’s National Commission in Charge of. Investigating the Existence of Price Distortions on Imported Goods (CNDP) decided in April to impose a 9.7% safeguard on maize grain imports. While these measures apply to purchases originating in any country, they primarily affect Argentina and Paraguay, which together provide 94.7 % of the volume of Chile’s foreign purchases of this product.[1] Around four of every ten tonnes of corn consumed in Chile are imported. The main Chilean regions devoted to corn cultivation are the VI (Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins) and the VII (Maule), located in the center of the country. Together they account for 73% of production.
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