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# Intelligence: Wine & Spirits Import in Argentina

## Industry Context

- **Payment pressure:** Duty and excise payments (large upfront costs); Bonded warehouse management

- **Operational control:** 0.5% spread on EUR wine payments; En primeur payment scheduling

## Country Context

- **Use case:** Pay Argentine suppliers for soybeans, beef, wine, lithium, agricultural machinery

- **Settlement:** T+0 (2.3s avg within Unicorn network)

- **Banking:** **CBU** (22-digit CBU (Clave Bancaria Uniforme))

- **Regulatory:** Banco Central de la República Argentina FX controls; AFIP (Tax Authority) documentation

## Key Industries in Country

- Agriculture

- Beef

- Wine

- Lithium

- Manufacturing