For Gustavo Casanova, CEO of Arbumasa and treasurer of CAPeCA, “2021 was very good for frozen products on board, but the war first and a new wave of COVID in Europe at the beginning of this year caused all consumption to return to the home, retracting meals outside From home”. “This situation slowed down the rotation of stocks and left us with price drops of 20-25%.”, he added.
“What is complicated are two central factors: on the one hand, the commercial of whole frozen on board, due to a retraction in demand and falling prices, and also that the last two years we have been suffering an increase in costs in dollars, with a dollar late officer, and our costs move at the rate of inflation in pesos, that makes the cost of the product in dollars higher and leaves us at a complicated level of competitiveness”, explained Casanova in La Opinion Austral.
“With these levels of inflation and the anchoring of the nominal exchange rate, we have already been dragging a delay of 50% in two years”, he emphasized.
Even imported inputs have risen in price in dollars. “Our suppliers need to import, for example, cardboard from Brazil or the United States to manufacture the cases where we put the shrimp, the sulfite that is an antioxidant used in the production of shrimp comes from China or Germany and there is none or the exporters do not they have dollars to buy them, so costs increase,” explained Angeleri.
The possible solutions presented by the sector
Finally, the representative of the sector spoke of “measures that give some oxygen”. “For example, remove the withholdings that today are between 6 and 9 percent depending on the product, honest the exchange rate, or some financial benefit with medium-long-term credits, something that gives air until the situation settles down”.
At the same time, he requested to make imports more flexible at 180 days and assign a quota to pay for imports of materials and supplies related to the activity.
They also requested term financing for the purchase of fuel (a very important cost of the activity) and to exclude from PAIS Taxes and Profit Withholding the payment of satellite monitoring services and WiFi connections on board, which today are paid by card at the exchange rate that operates for purchases abroad, the so-called Qatar dollar.
Source: Ambito
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