Uruguay Import Regulations for Pre-Owned (Used and Refurbished) Medical Devices - Customs Forum

**admin** · 07-24-2011, 23:49 PM

General Market Condition: Restricted
Unfortunately there would appear to be no niche for used medical equipment in the Uruguayan market. Tariffs on used items are applied on the value if new! Moreover, as a member of Mercosur, Uruguay applies a common external tariff to products coming from outside Mercosur. The common external tariff in some cases is as high as 16.5 percent, whereas the tariff on medical equipment coming from the other Mercosur countries is zero percent.
Although the same regulations apply to used equipment as to new equipment, the Ministry of Public Health tends to make the procedures extremely troublesome (even in the case of donations!), so local importers do not look for used equipment. The Ministry of Public Health will accept used equipment as donations only and they make it difficult for themselves also!
Local costs for repairing/refurbishing are low with high skills. So when upgrading, high-end institutions/users tend to sell their equipment to those with lower technologies and they can then have it as new at low costs.

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