Argentina
Under review
Argentina publishes a searchable national open-data catalogue, and it holds the right instrument on paper: REPSAL, a daily-updated public register of employers sanctioned for labour violations, including forced and child labour. We attempted an assessment and could not obtain it — the register rejects our infrastructure, and the open-data catalogue turned out to carry statistics rather than registers.
What can be established in Argentina
1 of 8 evidence categories are backed by records we hold and re-check. The rest are shown as they are — the honest picture of a jurisdiction is mostly incomplete, and a coverage map that hides that is a reassurance map.
| Evidence category | Status | What it answers |
|---|---|---|
| Legal identity | No records held | Does the company exist, and who owns it? |
| Labour | No records held | Findings of forced or degrading labour. |
| Environmental | No records held | Enforcement, embargoes, deforestation. |
| Corruption & debarment | No records held | Sanctions, debarment, admissions. |
| International sanctions | Records held | US, EU and UN restrictive measures. |
| Land & geography | No records held | Property boundaries and where production happened. |
| Facilities | No records held | Which plants are authorised to export. |
| Trade flow | No records held | What the company exports, and to where. |
What we watch, and when we last looked
Live figures, not a claim. If our collection stopped, these dates would stop moving and you would see it here rather than us quietly serving stale data.
| Register | Companies listed | Last retrieved | Match strength |
|---|---|---|---|
| ofac sdn | 9,854 | 11 Aug 2026 | Name only — confirm identity |
| un consolidated | 275 | 11 Aug 2026 | Name only — confirm identity |
| eu sanctions | 4,449 | 11 Aug 2026 | Name only — confirm identity |
What we tried, and what happened
“Not assessed” on its own does not tell you whether nobody has looked or whether someone looked and the records could not be obtained. Those are different facts about a jurisdiction, so we record which.
| Attempted | Outcome | Checked |
|---|---|---|
| National open-data catalogue (datos.gob.ar), searched for sanction, labour and company registers | Reachable and programmatically searchable, but it publishes statistical series rather than registers. The only sanction dataset found covers consumer-protection fines, which does not bear on supply-chain due diligence. | 2026-08-11 |
| REPSAL — public register of employers with labour sanctions, the closest Argentine analogue to Brazil’s forced-labour register | The TLS handshake completes with a valid certificate and the server then resets the connection. Tested from two countries, with browser headers, over HTTP/1.1, and finally with a real Chromium browser — every attempt reset identically, which rules out headers, protocol negotiation and TLS fingerprinting and leaves the source IP. The register exists and is published daily; it does not accept traffic from where we are. | 2026-08-11 |
What this does not establish
- No labour, environmental, integrity or identity register has been obtained. The status is under review rather than unassessed because the attempt was made and documented, not because anything was established.
- REPSAL is the register a buyer would most want here and it is the one we cannot reach. Any claim about Argentine labour findings would have to come from somewhere else entirely.
- Company identity has not been assessed.
- Trade-flow data is held for soy in neighbouring Brazil and Paraguay but not for Argentina.
Sources
Every statement above is drawn from these primary sources. Check them yourself — we link to the authority, not to a summary of it.
- REPSAL — Registro Público de Empleadores con Sanciones Laborales — Ministerio de Trabajo, Empleo y Seguridad Social
- datos.gob.ar — national open-data catalogue — Gobierno de Argentina
Commodities
- Soy — the evidence chain and where it breaks down