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Implementation of the ITU-T International Standards for the Sustainable Management of
Electrical and Electronic Equipment: On the road to a circular economy in Argentina

Figure 12: Material flows identification codes

The flows of imports, exports, and national production for 2019 were taken from INDEC,
which reports in tons for imports and exports and in units for national production. To estimate
equivalences between units and tons of products, the average unit weights of each tracer from
the "EEE Put on Market Tool" of the United Nations University (UNU) were used (Figure 12).

Table 5 shows a summary of the information available for each tracer, primary from the surveys
conducted and secondary from the INDEC statistics. For tablets, notebooks, and printers, there
was no information from the latter source.

Table 5: Availability of primary and secondary information by tracer

Source: Own elaboration, 2021.

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