The first entity to confirm it was the one that perhaps expresses the greatest degree of confrontation today with the Government, the Argentine Rural Society. Its owner, Nicolás Pino, acknowledged contacts via Whatsapp and even spoke of the possibility of a face-to-face meeting in the coming days. “Changes are welcome if they are for the better,” he said publicly over the weekend.
As business sources confirmed to Ámbito, he was not the only contact with agribusiness. There are also talks underway with the grain companies, especially related to the need to speed up the liquidation. Guillermo Michel, head of Customs, and Lisandro Cleri, appointed vice president of the Central Bank of the Argentine Republic, also act as interlocutors for the assembly of measures.
In the first person, Massa had contact with another businessman in the sector with close ties to the Casa Rosada. The talk took place in hours in which it had not yet been confirmed that Gabriel Delgado would take over the Unit for the Opening of New Protein Markets and a kind of clamoring operation had been put together for private parties to sweeten the ears of the former Secretary of Agriculture and director of the INTA, which finally joins the management. The idea of a series of stimuli, such as lower employer contributions and accelerated amortization of investments, to add value at source, appears in every talk.
Although the climate of conversation was pleasant in all cases, the new Economy Minister will have to face a first short circuit. The advance payment of the Income Tax for large companies, for which the Government expects to collect some $200,000 million. There are some 2,000 firms that according to the Executive had “extraordinary” profits this year that will have to face it. The downside, the companies say, is that if that payment were made next year as planned, it would be liquefied by the current level of inflation. Although optimists see it as a way to deactivate the project to tax unexpected income that Martín Guzmán sent to Congress.
Prior to landing at the Palacio de Hacienda, there were also communicating vessels with the industry. The head of the UIA, Daniel Funes de Rioja, confirmed: “De Mendiguren, who is going to be key in the relationship with the sector, has already been in contact with us.” The main concern today is the possibility of accessing imported inputs and the central challenge will be to provide certainty on this point.
Local manufacturers can read the inclusion in the economic team of Priscila Makari, former executive director of Fundación Protejer, as a wink. From the same point of view, they could analyze the arrival of Tomás Canosa, who used to be director of the study center of the Association of Metallurgical Industrialists of the Argentine Republic, but who was previously part of the UIA. An industrialist-style team practically guarantees that both the protection of sensitive and employment-generating sectors and the productive financing agenda will remain in force.
In recent days, the difficulty of finding valid interlocutors has caused concern among business men and women. “I had a meeting scheduled with Guzmán because we have an important investment plan. Three days before the scheduled date he resigned. Then we sent a letter to Batakis to continue the negotiations; before having an answer she was displaced. Let’s hope we have better luck now”, said the director of a major energy firm. In any case, a new stage begins today, in which the link with the companies will find a frontman, in principle, with more tools than the previous ones.
Source: Ambito
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