AR · Origin
Source from
Argentina.
Argentina ranks among the world's top 5 leather exporters. With 50M+ cattle and a sophisticated tanning industry concentrated in the Buenos Aires industrial belt, Argentine leather is globally regarded for quality and tannability. All leather exports for the EU market must include EUDR-compliant geo-polygons covering the full cattle lifecycle. SENASA maintains the VISEC traceability registry.
The only origin where we run full EUDR geo-polygon workflow
Why here
What the origin
is actually good at.
World-class leather — EUDR-applicable category. Each line below is a property of the place — its materials, its registries, its trade position — not a promise about us.
Top 5 global leather exporter — tannery capacity exceeds 50 million m² per year
SENASA VISEC registry provides end-to-end cattle lifecycle traceability for EUDR compliance
EU-Mercosur FTA: leather goods duty phasing to 0% from 4% MFN over 10 years
Sophisticated Buenos Aires tanning belt integrates wet-blue and finished leather in one supply chain
Merco manages full EUDR geo-polygon workflow for Argentina — the most complex LATAM origin
Source · lib/marketing/countries.ts (Argentina) — origin properties, tariff lines, ports and transit ranges.
Where it is made
The towns,
not the country.
5 production centres, and the port they leave through — Buenos Aires. Sourcing from Argentina means sourcing from these places: a mill in the wrong state is a different lead time, a different cluster and a different set of certifications. The map beside this holds each one at its real coordinates.
Borders are Natural Earth 1:50m admin-0 geometry; town positions are their real coordinates. Centres are the hubs named in lib/marketing/countries.ts and the cluster each belongs to — not a map of our suppliers, who are named inside the platform once verified.
Complexity
The hard origin,
handled.
EUDR cattle chain of custody
Argentina is the only origin in this matrix that needs this. Merco runs the geo-polygon collection, the satellite check and the DDS draft; the Article 4 decision and the act of placing goods on the EU market stay with you as EU operator of record.
Source Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 Art. 4 and Art. 9 (geolocation of plots); SENASA VISEC cattle registry. Stage list from lib/marketing/countries.ts (Argentina).
The lane
Buenos Aires to Rotterdam.
Transit is a range, not a date — schedules move, and a lane that is quoted as a single number is a lane someone is guessing about. Argentina's spread is drawn below against the other three origins on the corridor.
→ Rotterdam · bands are the carrier-stated transit range
Source Transit ranges and origin ports from lib/marketing/countries.ts; all lanes measured to Rotterdam.
At the border
What you pay,
and for how long.
The preferential rate is not automatic: it is a claim you make at import, and it holds only if the good was made in territory under the rules of origin. Merco computes the applicable rate at order time and produces the proof.
EU–Mercosur phase-out, HS 61/62 apparel · MFN baseline 12% → preferential 0% by 2035.
Source HS lines and rates from lib/marketing/countries.ts (Argentina); MFN baseline from EU TARIC; EU–Mercosur Agreement staging.
The rules
What EUDR asks
of this origin.
Scope is decided by the material, not the country. Where the material is in scope, the work is geolocation and a filed statement; where it is out of scope, no amount of paperwork is required and we will not sell you any.
All cattle-derived leather requires geo-polygons for birth farm, rearing, and fattening stages. A Due Diligence Statement (DDS) is mandatory under EUDR Art. 4 before placing goods on the EU market.
Responsibility boundary Merco supports the geo-polygon collection and DDS preparation workflow. The Article 4 due diligence obligation and the decision to place goods on the EU market remain with the EU operator of record.
Source · Regulation (EU) 2023/1115 (EUDR), Art. 2 scope and Art. 4 operator obligations.
What it makes
Categories,
and what they carry.
The categories Argentina exports at scale, and the certifications its mills hold. We do not publish factory names: a match is only worth anything after the mill has passed verification, and you see it inside the platform, with the evidence attached.
Categories
Certifications available
Certifications are the schemes mills in this origin operate under; a specific supplier's certificates are verified against the issuing registry before they appear on a listing.
Open Argentina.
Tell us what you buy and where it lands. We come back with mills in Argentina that can make it and the paperwork position for each one — or we tell you the origin is wrong for the product. No fee to join.