“Open the markets will also open the doors of the world to Argentine companies so that they can sell our products to 8000 million people,” said the president.
Within the framework of his speech for the opening of sessions in Congress, the President Javier Milei made a promise of greater commercial openingattacking the “protectionist lie.”
In his presentation, the president highlighted the need for “return to Argentines the freedom to trade with whom they wishfor goods and services to enter the local market and so each one can buy freely quality products at a better price. “
“For decades, under the premise of protecting a handful of jobs, He deliberately increased the cost of living millions of Argentines. In many cases, forcing them even to acquire goods of doubtful quality at completely distorted prices, “he lamented.
“Enough of the protectionist lie”: Milei’s warning to industrialists
Thus, he stressed: “I also want here to end another fallacy, with which we have been lying for almost a hundred years, and that is the theme of the infant industry, an infant who is at least 90 years old. Or, say, to protect the industry X, because it generates jobs.”
In that sense, he explained that it is about “Another lie”and argued: “If in the process of opening the economy a product of better quality or better price enters a company, it is also true that consumers now have more money in their pocket and can spend them in other sectors of the economy. Therefore, employment will be reassigned and sectors will go where it is more productive and where there are greater salaries and therefore there is greater well -being for all“
“Therefore, Enough of the protectionist lie, because deep“He said.
Under that line, he stressed that “Opening the markets will also open the doors of the world to Argentine companies so that they can sell our products to 8000 million people, in an international context where what Argentina has to offer will be very required.”
Source: Ambito
