# Export Tax Relief Aids Argentina’s Soybean Trade

> Argentina began a program on January 1, 2018 that cuts soybean and soybean oil export taxes by 0.5 percentage points a month. Rates fall from 30% and 27% to 18% and 15% by December 2019. The article says the sector has been squeezed by high storage and transport costs.

- Date: 2018-01-22 · published 2018-01-22T12:00:00.000Z
- Category: policy · region Argentina · magnitude medium
- Page: https://feedsoft.ai/events/66849-export-tax-relief-aids-argentina-s-soybean-trade
- Commodities: [Soybeans](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SOY.md), [Soybean Meal](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBM.md), [Soybean Oil](https://feedsoft.ai/c/SBO.md)

## Why it matters

Lower export taxes raise farmer returns and should gradually increase Argentine export availability of soymeal and oil, which weighs on world meal and oil prices.

## Read by commodity

- SBM: bearish ▼
- SBO: bearish ▼
- SOY: bearish ▼

## Similar past events

| Commodity | Date | Event | 5-day % | 20-day % |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| SOY | 2016-12-30 | [Argentina: New plan to reduce the export tax on soybean - Global Trade Alert](https://feedsoft.ai/events/73319-argentina-new-plan-to-reduce-the-export-tax-on-soybean-global-trade-alert.md) | -1.7% | +1.9% |
| SOY | 2025-07-30 | [Argentina to resume soybean exports after official tax cut – CIARA-CEC](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13845-argentina-to-resume-soybean-exports-after-official-tax-cut-ciara-cec.md) | -1.3% | +4.8% |
| SOY | 2017-11-28 | [Soybean meal: lower export duties in Argentina](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67812-soybean-meal-lower-export-duties-in-argentina.md) | +0.3% | -3.7% |
| SOY | 2025-10-03 | [Argentina Export Tax Shock Hits Grain Markets](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13828-argentina-export-tax-shock-hits-grain-markets.md) | -0.1% | +6.6% |
| SOY | 2018-06-04 | [Argentina: Argentina’s Delay of Soybean Export Tax Reduction Unlikely \| USDA Foreign Agricultural Service](https://feedsoft.ai/events/64370-argentina-argentina-s-delay-of-soybean-export-tax-reduction-unlikely-usda.md) | -5.1% | -15.9% |
| SBM | 2016-12-30 | [Argentina: New plan to reduce the export tax on soybean - Global Trade Alert](https://feedsoft.ai/events/73319-argentina-new-plan-to-reduce-the-export-tax-on-soybean-global-trade-alert.md) | -2.3% | +6.2% |
| SBM | 2025-07-30 | [Argentina to resume soybean exports after official tax cut – CIARA-CEC](https://feedsoft.ai/events/13845-argentina-to-resume-soybean-exports-after-official-tax-cut-ciara-cec.md) | +3.6% | +11.9% |
| SBM | 2017-11-28 | [Soybean meal: lower export duties in Argentina](https://feedsoft.ai/events/67812-soybean-meal-lower-export-duties-in-argentina.md) | +2.5% | -3.6% |

## Sources

- gro-intelligence.com: https://www.gro-intelligence.com/insights/argentina-soybean-export-tax

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