Anagena requests validation of customs certificates at alternative border crossings

The National Association of Customs Agents (Anagena A.G.) requested the health authority of the Valparaíso Region to analyze the implementation of a contingency plan to validate the use of Customs Destination Certificates (CDA), already issued for Los Andes, at other border crossings in Chile, given the climatic situation that has affected the operation of the Los Libertadores pass.

Through a statement, Anagena indicated that they have "made arrangements with the health authority to address the difficulties faced by foreign trade operators whose trucks must be diverted to other authorized border crossings in the country."

"The current situation has led transporters and foreign trade users who choose to enter their cargo through alternative passes, such as Pino Hachado or Jama, to face inconveniences associated with the Customs Destination Certificates (CDA) previously processed for entry through Los Andes," explained the organization.

The association detailed that "in practice, this situation forces the cancellation of the originally issued CDA and the management of a new document for the destination border crossing, which implies carrying out additional procedures, requesting the refund of paid values, incurring new costs, and facing an approximate wait of 72 hours, generating greater delays in a logistics chain already affected by the contingency."

"For this reason, we have requested the Internment Office of the Aconcagua Provincial Office of the Seremi de Salud of the Valparaíso Region to evaluate the implementation of a contingency plan that allows the validation of CDAs already issued for Los Andes at other authorized border crossings, particularly in Pino Hachado and Jama," the group indicated.

"We consider it fundamental to advance in measures that allow continuity of the flow of goods and avoid additional impacts for importers, transporters, and foreign trade operators, especially considering the large number of trucks that remain waiting for the reopening of Los Libertadores Pass," Anagena remarked.

"We value the contingency measures already implemented by the National Customs Service and the Agricultural and Livestock Service (SAG), through which mechanisms have been established to facilitate the use of documentation initially presented in Los Andes at other border points in the country," the association stated.