Reviews of Macri for the trip to India: "We have become a grocery store"

It's here by 2016, a Mauricio Macri optimistic with the beginning of his management, declared its goal of transforming Argentina into the "global supermarket"This sentence contained the ambitious plan to change the productive matrix of a country that was in its infancy"the barn of the world"Equivalent to say, the president wanted Argentina to stop being a mere primary producer and start selling industrialized products.

However, many politicians, businesses and even the media have pointed out that Macri's trip to India and Vietnam resulted in agreements going in the opposite direction to this goal. To quote a case, the journalist and economist Marcelo Zlotogwiazda he pointed from his Twitter account: "The government celebrates that Argentina will export lemons, eggs, oranges, tangerines, grapefruit, grapes and sesame seeds to India. We went from pretending to be the supermarket of the world to the fruit and vegetable merchants ".

The Government welcomes that Argentina exports lemons, eggs, oranges, mandarins, grapefruit, grapes and sesame seeds to India. We went from pretending to be the supermarket of the world to a fruit and vegetable store.

– Marcelo Zlotogwiazda (@zlotomarcelo) February 19, 2019

Zlotogwiazda's critics point out that the agreements pave the way for Argentina to export raw materials, while Vietnam, for example, demanded the entry of primary products at our borders, but also other more processed products. , like electronics.

In a similar sense to that of the journalist, deputy of Front Renovador and industrial entrepreneur José Ignacio de Mendiguren criticized: "Fruit for home appliances. We continue to import value added, employment. The world wants us primaricemos and here we are, primarizados. "The opposition too, Silvina Batakis, who was minister of the economy of Daniel Scioli, writes from him: "We will sell mandarins and buy bovine genetics. I really want to cry #India"

We will sell mandarins and buy bovine genetics. I really want to cry #India

– Silvina Batakis (@sbatakis) February 20, 2019

PROFILE consulted the Chancellery of Argentina to know their opinion about these critics and, sources of this ministry, claimed that it was "opposite chicanas"

In addition, the official response continued: "Argentina has a productive and highly competitive export matrix in all agri-food industries. That is what most of them live in more than three quarters of the provinces of our country. The Asian market imports almost everything it eats and is very complementary to what we export, in terms of agricultural products. It makes sense that we conclude such agreements with India or Vietnam to export fruits and meat. "

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In addition, the portfolio adds: "In addition to agricultural products, Argentina exports services based on knowledge, artificial intelligence, space technology and nuclear medicine, agricultural machinery."

Who agrees with this position, was the foreign trade specialist Marcelo Elizondo, who responded to the consultation of this media: "Argentina is an exporter of agricultural products and not of finished products. We start from the mistake of thinking that we are already the supermarket of the world and that we are not. Argentina exports bulk goods, some primary and other manufactured, "Elizondo explained.

"The agreement with India is an agreement based on reality, I would not criticize it, it is more, I do not think it is criticized to be an exporter fruit and cerealsHe added: "With regard to electronic product import agreements, he said:"When we are in agreement with another, there are two who are in agreement, we can not get what he wants, we have to find a consensus. Secondly, Argentina needs imports for its production: 80% of the products we import are inputs, capital goods, parts or parts of capital goods … ".

On the other hand, the economist of the University of Avellaneda Sergio Chouza – In 2016, an article on the reprimarisation that the government faced said: "When the President's visit proposes to place eggs, lemons, lithium and yerba in exchange for electrical appliances, there is a fundamental characteristic a more strict and methodical logic, Analyze the actions of trade aggregates in different parts of the world"

However, he added that: "In the past year, the rise in exports, resulting from the improvement of the exchange rate, there was a strongly primarising commercial improvement. They have developed many more primary products and commodities than industrial products. The last cake is more primary at the end of 2018 than in 2017"

In the same line, last week, the textile entrepreneur Damián Regalini I had given an interview to PROFILE In which he criticized: "What surprises and annoys those of us who have an industry, is to see that the government announces with great fanfare the tour of Southeast Asia, while we all know that sell to Southeast Asia is to consolidate the model of economic primarization. "