In this sense, Fernández assured that the measure “It helps alleviate the situation of SMEs, despite the difference in the exchange rate” and added that “in cases of inputs for import or capital goods to manufacture, this measure is obviously going to be very important”. In addition, Fernández recalled that it was “an issue that CGERA raised with the various officials and was reflected in the Budget.”
According to official data, to date there are 1,029 registered importers with 2,372 SIRAs for an FOB amount of US$125 million. 24% of imports correspond to generator sets and other machinery registered by mining and construction companies with infrastructure works that provide goods to their subsidiaries without requiring funds to be transferred abroad. In this line, 596 SMEs (59% of the total) accounted for 37% of operations by FOB value. Likewise, 422 large companies (41% of the total) accounted for 62% of operations by FOB value.
For his part, from the leather goods sector, Rubén Pallone, described the initiative as “an advance” and as “an emergency measure in the context of the serious external restriction that our country is going through.” In addition, the President of CIMA stated that “management of scarce foreign exchange resources is necessary, segmenting supply and favoring SME companies that need some resource to have greater competition, not generate more inflation in the internal market and be competitive through international level”.
Meanwhile, the leader of the CGERA of the optical sector, Norberto Fermani, “from CGERA we have been asking for a long time that the use of own foreign exchange for imports be allowed and given the distressing lack of supplies, any measure that allows not to stop production is welcome”. Likewise, he pointed out that “from now on, it brings new questions that will be clarified as the days go by, but we hope to use the dollars of the Central Bank for the acquisition of supplies and not superfluous products that distort the domestic economy.”
Source: Ambito
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