For the small and medium entrepreneurs Accustomed to walking the halls of the ministries, the departure of Marcos Ayerra of the SME Secretariat announced this Tuesday was something to wait. And, in the same way, The closure of that agency did not surprise. The thing is Ayerra did not have large resources To do the main task that is done in a dependency of these characteristics, which is to have promotion programs with greater or lesser need for public funds.
Entrepreneurs consulted by scope expressed their disagreement with the dissolution of such a secretariatwhose origin dates back to the 90s. But they also recognize that without financial resources it does not make much sense that there is.
“The Secretary was a very useful tool for the sectornow I was without resources and that could not be operational and meet the objective for which it was created, ”he said Daniel Rosato, President of Industrials SMEs Argentinos (IPA). The leader said that “We did not have soft financing, the training programs and the tools they had were suspended; Everything was void. ”
IPA’s holder stressed that “Ayerra He tried to do everything he could, attended to all sectors and gave how little he had, But the demand exceeded it because that demand has to do with the high costs to produce and the increase in imports. ”He considered that “Without resources it makes no sense to exist” A SME Secretariat, since at your discretion “It would have to be enhanced.”
Regarding the Secretary of Production, Pablo Lavigne, who would absorb the area, said that “the times we listened to it was in favor of imports.” “We are not going to find in him a defender of the national industry,” he said.
Marcelo Fernández, From the General Business Confederation of the Argentine Republic (CGERA), he said: “We do not share the decision to eliminate the SME secretary which was created in the 90s. The secretaries and secretaries were like our ambassadors before the officials on duty. “” For us It was important because from there you could think of tools for the development of SMEs, ”said Fernández.
In that sense, the Argentine Confederation of Medium Enterprises (CAME) said “Your concern Before the announcement of the Ministry of Economy the Nation to close to the Secretariat of Small and Medium Enterprise, Entrepreneurs and Knowledge Economics ”.
Some programs had been launched
“This decision Leave all SMEs – everyday name of the national economy – without the necessary institutional interaction ”, The entity pointed out. In that sense, he indicated that “CAME and the SME Secretariat had been working together in the offer of free courses to enhance growth, competitiveness and innovation of SMEs, entrepreneurs and companies in the knowledge economy through the Virtual platform Train and with the program ‘Creating local capabilities’ “.
In the case of the Federation of Commerce of Buenos Aires (Fecoba), the Secretariat had managed to develop the Pyme Punto, A unique window platform that allows entity and entity managers to manage claims and perform different types of procedures to save costs and time. Fabián Castillo, the president of Fecoba, expressed to scope Lto the need to keep that policies beyond the names of people that traveled by the public service.
Something similar raised Jose Luis Ammaturo, of the House of the Medium Metallurgical Industry Argentina (Camima). “SMEs in Argentina have no differential treatment, the taxes that pagans in quantity and aliquots are equal to large companies”he explained.
The leader said that “there are 500,000 companies, which indicates that it is a large sector to attend.” “Put the name any, but pay attention to the sector ”, He pointed out, by raising the need for any window from the state that serves the sector.
Source: Ambito
