The IPA Observatory warned that the installed capacity of SMEs is below 60%, with falls in production, sales and employment. They demand from the government a plan that attends microeconomy.
A new report turned on the alarms about the delicate situation that the SMEs of the national industry. From the sector they detailed that more than 200,000 jobsat the same time that they warned that the collapse of consumption “will suffocate national factories” if urgent measures are not taken to reverse the trend.
The data arose from the survey of the Argentine SME Industrial Association (IPA), which revealed that the installed capacity of SMEs is located at just 58.2%with an interannual fall of 1.5 points. Key sectors such as automotive (-8.1%) and chemical (-5.8%) lead the retraction. “Of every 10 machines in the factories, four are paralyzed,” lamented the head of IPA, Daniel Rosato, who said that “the financial plan of the spill never arrived and the crisis left almost without breathing to the factories.”
The report also showed that in the last 18 months They lost 272,880 formal jobs and that consumption continues to be bite: sales fell 9% and the wholesale channel accumulates 24 consecutive months of negative results. Sales in supermarkets chain eight months of mild growth, insufficient to recover the historical fall.
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IPA also warned about the deterioration of the commercial balance. The accumulated surplus until July collapsed 64% year -on -year and reached barely US $ 5,071 million in 2025compared to US $14,075 million in the same 2024 period. “Imports grow 32% against a 6% of exports, the worst performance in a decade,” they said.
Looking ahead, the entity provides for “complex months” marked by High financial volatility and pressure on purchasing power. For IPA, the result of the post-electoral scenario will be decisive to sustain macroeconomic stability and avoid a deepening of the crisis.
Source: Ambito
