The Automotive industry is working to the limit in terms of supply of parts and supplies for the production by restrictions to import. Both the terminals and, especially, the auto parts They have serious problems to continue producing.
The approval delays of the permissions to import – known as SIRA – as the complications to pay foreign suppliers cause more and more inconvenience in factories.
In practice, this situation causes constant technical stops in automotive by delays in delivery of materialswhen the shortage is of an important input, or the need to remove from the assembly line vehicles that are not finished, when the stockout is of a minor piece.
For this reason, from the association that groups local terminals (ADEFA) they are raising the Government the different complications that lead to production in critical condition.
In many cases, the automotive have to intervene before officials of the economic area to unlock some import locked from some of its suppliers, with merchandise delayed in the portso that you can manufacture and deliver the auto part that you produce in a timely manner because, otherwise, will force the factory to stop production of 0km.
Despite these claims, in recent weeks the situation has become more complex and, in the absence of answersthe automakers appealed to the SMATA union management in order to have an official answer.
He General Secretary of the Mechanic Guild, Ricardo PignanelliShe is a leader who has a very good relationship with the government. Since the beginning of the current kirchnerist management maintained its support for the ruling party, both with the President Alberto Fernandez as with the vice Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner.
This relationship also extends to the current Economy Minister Sergio Massa. So much so that the official was present, in recent times, in several announcements of the automotive sector accompanied by Pignanelli.
That close link was what they bet on from ADEFA to find solution, through the guild, to the urgent problems he has today.
In this context, the union leader interceded in recent days to unlock the problem that the suppliers of the terminals that were obtaining SIRAs were having but without a date to be able to make payments abroad to their own suppliers.
“Negotiations were being made for SMATA to intercede and take advantage of the good arrival that the union has with Massa so that the government understood the seriousness of the issue for not being able to pay debts abroad “a source from the sector confirmed to Ámbito.
From ADEFA, it is difficult to recognize, officially, that this management was promoted because would show the weakness of the companies to get answers from Ministry of Economyin the midst of this critical situation.
From one of the terminals, they gave a diplomatic explanation: “The concern is shared because it is not convenient for SMATA to stop production. It was a necessity on both sides, the management that the union did. They offered to collaborate because they have direct dialogue with high-level officials”.
Not having a certain term for the Central Bank releases the dollars to the official exchange rate to turn abroad, local auto parts manufacturers cannot guarantee their suppliers when they would be able to pay for the purchases made.
This generates that foreign companies begin to put obstacles to send merchandise or, directly, communicate that shipments were cut off.
In this way, the terminals worked with the permanent threat of being on the verge of shortages for auto parts manufacturers.
The union management had its result since, since yesterday, the SIRAs began to come out with defined payment dateswhich allowed the situation to begin to normalize and, as of today, the central bank He assured the terminals that all payments were regularized.
In any case, the fragility of the supply continues to be high and production planning is done day by day.
Source: Ambito
