The businessmen of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) expressed concern about the high interest rates that faces the financial market, on a day in which the government announced that it will begin to intervene in the dollar market. The businessmen claimed for the fall of the activity.
So The president of the Argentine Industrial Union (UIA) Martín Rappallini and the head of the Industrial Union of Córdoba, Luis Macario, stood outwithin the framework of the Industry Day Meeting held at the Convention Center of the City of Córdoba where some 900 entrepreneurs attended.
Rappallini, who presented a decalogue for a new productive pact, warned that “The industrial sector wants to express its concern in the short term for the lack of recovery of broad sectors of the industry that still fail to reactivate, the levels of interest rates that hinder the investment and the financing, the speed of the economic opening without previously resolved the structural distortions ”.
The head of the UIA put again on the table The problems that generate financial instability. “We compete every day with the world and when we accumulate distortions they move to prices and make us lose competitiveness,” he explained. In that sense, he claimed that there is “a state that assumes a role in the definition of productive policies that generate adequate conditions.”
For its side, Luis Macario, from the UIC, said that “in Argentina the credit to the private sector does not reach 10% of GDP and the little that exists is oriented to consumption rather than investment.”
“We need to have reasonable interest rates with the economic context of inflation that goes down, that accompany the real capacity of repayment of companies and that it is not a lead lifeguard, ”said the Cordoba businessman. In that sense, he added that companies“ need specific financing instruments to invest in capital goods, Technological and exports reconversion. ”In another aspect, he considered that” a country is not built from the imposition, but from consensus. “
For its part, the head of the Argentine Rural Society (Mrs), Nicolás Pino, who shared a table with Rappallini, on the other hand, insisted on the need for solve the problems of rural roads. He said that in the province of Buenos Aires, “there are 700,000 hectares under water”. By rejecting the idea of a dichotomy between field and industry, Pino said that it coincides with its pair of the UIA in relation to the proposals for the economy.
Like other entrepreneurs, Pino also uses focus on taxes. “We think of the large number of kilometers on rural roads, which are responsibility on provinces and intentions that charge their rates for a service that does not exist, ”he complained. The head of the MSR demanded a “labor reform to give tranquility to work datators, end labor trials.”
The challenges of entrepreneurs
Meanwhile, Daniel Herrero, CEO of prestige-still, He affirmed, when talking about the automotive industry and innovation of the sector for the next years that “Argentina has all the potential, technical talent, Industrial vocation, export capabilities, fundamental resources for electrification, such as lithium, but with that it only does not reach. ”
“For industrial Argentina that comes We need a predictable model where the industry is a matter of state. We need to work in infrastructure to be competitive to what is coming, ”he said. Herrero insisted that“ a tax matrix is required that adapts to being even with whom we have to compete “. “The tax matrix of the automotive industry in Argentina is loaded in production and in Brazil is loaded into marketing.”
“If we want to compete, we have to understand that Latin America invests on average will be 0.3% of the gross product in research and development. If we compare the giants, they invest 5% of the product in research and development, ”added the former Toyota.
A commercial diplomacy
On the other hand, Marisa Bircher, former secretary of Foreign Trade and current consultant said that it is necessary to the interests of Argentina that the Diplomacy focuses beyond the relationship with the United States.
“We need diplomacy without so much political bias. This insertion agenda It requires a dialogue with many markets simultaneously, ”said Bircher. The consultant considered that“You have to run the political and focus on long -term negotiations and with clear rules. ”
Source: Ambito
