The sector faces a challenging context, but remains resilient: with presence throughout the country, it forms a wide productive network that generates thousands of jobs. Today, more than ever, it needs minimal consensus and intelligent policies that take it out of the pendulum.
The importance of the textile industry lies in its ability to sustain regional economies and generate employment: in Argentina it gives work to more than 500 thousand people. But its impact is not only measured in numbers: it is a sector that uses vulnerable groups such as women (70%), migrants and occupied with low educational level or with few capacities to easily relocate in other productive branches.
In many regions of the country, textile factories are a key engine of development, which energizes trade and strengthens production. An example of this is the premises of Avellaneda, where more than 3,000 points of sale supply as many thousands of final stores and consumers that arrive from all corners.
The Argentine textile industry has been trapped, for decades, in a pendulum of policies that oscillates between protectionist and opening extremes, without middle points. Macroeconomic instability and frequent change of rules of the game attempt against the planning of companies and promote behaviors that exacerbate the problem. But indiscriminate opening is not the solution to high clothing prices in Argentina: never opening the importation of finished products reduced prices to the public, it only generated greater profits to importers.
Despite this constant pendulum -a contrary of what is commonly thought -, in recent years, companies in the sector have invested more than 1.4 billion in capital goods, infrastructure and technology to improve their productive processes and be more sustainable. Without all this investment, repeated economic fluctuations would have already destroyed their entire framework.
Argentina needs to build a road map with minimal consensus for the textile industry. Dismantling it would mean losing thousands of jobs and weakening a production network that supplies both small brands and large manufacturers, ultimately affecting consumers.
In a country that has gone through strong changes in such a short time, the sector is resilient. It is demonstrated by international exhibitions and meeting spaces such as Issuex: there are visible the huge efforts of the entire industry to maintain its competitiveness, stock up on technological novelties and be an opportunity for thousands of entrepreneurs who find in it a genuine source of income for their homes.
Today the National Textile-Indumentary industry faces risks that require clear and urgent measures. Lowing clothes in Argentina is possible, but only from intelligent policies that do not destroy employment or local production.
Issitex Manager
Source: Ambito
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