The volatility that exhibited the dollar During the last weeks it also affected the industry, With some sectors moving at prices The increase of inputs and energyas happened with the automotive industry. Meanwhile, others still await the impact it may have on their operational costs. It is a new element that adds pressure to the productive framework, beaten by the fall of sales and the opening of imports.
The head of Industriales SMEs Argentinas (IPA), Daniel Rosatoexplained to Scope which had to move at prices a part of the increases he experienced in his tisu paper plant. “I need to increase 5% because they don’t give me the numbers. We have had losses due to energy cost since Input costs increased due to the increase in the dollar. Without any doubt that this is partly seen in the gondola, but we will suffer those we produce. “
The business leader emphasized the sustained increase in energy for the electro -intense industry, element that “does have a strong impact on prices”. And he deepened: “That sector has been suffering increases, either through the systems that put the bill, which is the wholesale electricity market (MEM) or adjustments, where the energy cost has increased.”
He added that The “are very expensive” adjustments, with invoices that passed “from $ 50 million to be worth $ 100 million”: “That is what is currently complicating many companies, which have to face millionaire bills.”
In this regard, on Monday resolution 1119/2025 was published in the Official Gazette that established an extension Until the end of the year of the discount regime in electric rates For companies with high energy consumption, seeking to mitigate the impact of cost increases.
The transfer dilemma at prices
The president of the Association of Industrials of Buenos Aires (ADIBA), Silvio Zurzolorecognized this media that they could “Start to see increases in the short term” product of the increase of the dollar. However, he said: “We must try that this does not happen because the main problem we have today is the low sales, added to the amount of imported products that come.”
Zurzolo said that much of the industry is for the domestic market and “if people do not have money in their pocket to consume, it becomes very difficult for it to work.” Anyway, he clarified that “you have to see what happens in the next few days” regarding the American currency. “Clearly, it is an indicator to look at it and be careful“He stressed.
Scope He could find out that several supermarket chains were already notified that they will receive increases in food products, cleaning and hygiene, with increases of 4%, 6%and up to 9%, although they assured that they will reject them because consumption does not rebound.
While, In the stores, price lists began to arrive with rises of up to 3% in some dairy products and personal hygiene products. On the other hand, in the baker industry they received increases of at least 10% in key supplies for production such as fats and margarine, and promises from some weight mills on flour increases for the next few hours.
From Quilmes They ratified this medium that they did not experience increases in costs due to the volatility of the exchange rate. “We are not living any change, at least for the moment“They said.
The decline in labor cost and exchange uncertainty
For its part, the general secretary of the Chamber of Small and Medium Metallurgical Industry (Camima), Jose Luis Ammaturohe explained that “Inputs and materials in the metallurgical industry are dollarized”Although he said there was no transfer at prices after the 14% increase in the dollar wholesale segment. “On the contrary, they continue month by month downa little to look for that competitiveness that we need to have all industrial and metallurgical ones, “he said.
In turn, he explained that the volatility of the dollar helped them reduce labor cost. “It was going up a lot in dollars and this rises attenuates him a bit, because The labor cost continues, predominantly, the retail price index. This movement of the dollar that had makes our work costs in dollars down. “
In dialogue with this medium, The founder and CEO of Edelflex, Miguel HarutiunianHe stated that although from the sector they expected “that there was a slightly more competitive dollar,” he added that “No abrupt movement of the dollar is good in any economy, that only generates uncertainty.”.
And deepened: “As we know that it was not something planned, but that it escaped the government, that generates some uneasiness. I hope it can be controlled, because this probably affects inflation and that some costs of imported materials rise. “
He considered that “it is a value chain that is almost impossible to be outside the circuit (of increases)” and said that “all to a greater extent will be affected.”
Source: Ambito
