Rosato denounced that there is an influx of imported finished products, which can be found on supermarket shelves, which ““It means the importation of foreign labor.”
“This situation occurs at the same time as the Argentine companies are conditioned to access inputs and capital goods, which are only produced in other parts of the world, due to the lack of dollars to buy them abroad.” Thus he highlighted some products such as dairy bread from Brazil and snacks from Paraguay.
“The income of finished products that businessmen negotiate today on trips abroad will be reflected in the months of May and June,” he stated while confirming that he asked the Government anti-dumping measures.
SME x-ray: how the Argentine productive structure is made up
Rosato presented the reissue of the IPA Observatory, a space that produces reports with statistics and economic analysis of the variables that affect the world of small and medium-sized industries, and which will be led by the director of the consultancy Marca Pyme, Pablo Bercovich, and its Macroeconomic manager, Martín Kalos.
The report showed an initial photo of the status of SMEs as of last December, where it indicated that in Argentina there are in total 547,970 companies, of which 536,076 are SMEs (97.8%) and 11,894 companies are large (the remaining 2.2%). “SMEs are geographically concentrated in a few provinces: Province of Buenos Aires concentrates 32%; CABA another 18.4%; Córdoba 9.9%; and Santa Fe 9.5%. Between these four provinces they cover 71% of the total SMEs in the country,” the survey stated.
And he focused on industrial factories: “22,312 industrial MSMEs are located in the Province of Buenos Aires (41.3% of industrial MSMEs throughout the country), divided between 15,435 in Greater Buenos Aires and another 6,877 in the rest of the Province. Another 9,828 (18.2% of the country) are based in CABA. Santa Fe (10.2% of the total industrial MSMEs), Córdoba (9.4%), Mendoza (4.3%) and Entre Ríos (2.6%) are the other provinces with a high participation in the total MSMEs Argentine industrialists.
The extensive and detailed IPA Observatory report included the identification of three key stages in the life of SMEs: the first called “Exit of Convertibility”, with a decrease in factories of around 8% in 2002, compared to 1996; the second called “Recovery”, which extends from 2003 to 2013 and expands the presence of the sector by 61% compared to the previous stage”; and a third named “Stagnation and fluctuation”, which lasted until last December, which included the pandemic crisis.
Source: Ambito
