Yahoo Finance (Spain) published an article stating that export rights (withholdings) have been in the Argentine public conversation for weeks. The debate is between very different viewpoints: insists that they are the necessary tools to “decouple” internal prices from external ones and from different sectors they assure that he overestimates this incidence. That is the first dividing line, that of those who understand that the tax benefits consumers and those who do not. The other, very marked, is between those who interpret that it is a “retrograde” charge used in international trade half a century ago and those who still see sense in it. Senior research fellow and Head of the Latin American and Caribbean program at IFPRI, Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla, said, “No economic policy measure should be looked at individually but rather in context; in this case in the price equation for the producer in which, in addition to the cargo, the world price and the exchange rate count.” Díaz-Bonilla also emphasizes that making domestic prices lower than international prices is one thing, but inflation “is different; it is a discussion of another level.” He also mentions that two points of GDP were lost and that has global effects on the economy that also affects producers.” He describes that there are countries with competitive natural resources, they do not use withholdings but production taxes to absorb part of the income and points to the case of Norway with oil and the creation of a fund.