Authorities of the Ministry Production met in the city of Santa Fe, with local entrepreneurs to boost the inclusion of SMEs in the external market, in the context the Recovery of Exporters Program.
The activity, organized by the Under-secretariat of Foreign Trade of the Province, and the Argentine Agency for Investment and International trade, was held at the production portfolio facilities, under the slogan "Your company is back to the world".
On the occasion, the Undersecretary of Foreign Trade, Carlos Braga, said, "This program of recovery of exports is very important to the provincial territory because we need to increase the levels of exports of manufactures of industrial origin".
"As a province - continued the official - we have a great growth of commodities and manufactures of agricultural origin, and we need to strengthen the industrial sector from an articulated work between the public and private sectors".
Finally, Braga noted, "This is an instance for our companies to raise needs and doubts, so from the national and provincial states we can interlink public policies that will allow us to recover markets".
YOUR COMPANY IS BACK TO THE WORLD
During the meeting, the companies could see the offer of programmes and lines of support of the Agency, the Bank for Investment and Foreign trade (Bice) and the Ministry of Production.
In addition, representatives of the companies interacted in an open workshop to share experiences and opportunities, with the aim of recovering and increasing the inclusion in the international market.
The Industries Director of the Argentine Agency for Investments and International Trade, Patricio Pizzoglio, indicated, "The Ministry of Production of the Nation detected that there were several sectors which have lost their participation in national exports from 2011 to date".
"One of those sectors is the metalworking, specifically the auto parts and the agricultural machinery, so in this occasion we aim to strengthen the approach in these products", added Pizzoglio.
ATTENDANCE
The Secretary of Industry of the Province, Emiliano Pietropaolo, together with specialists and representatives of the Bank for Investment and Foreign Trade (Bice) and of the National Secretaries of Productive Transformation, of entrepreneurs and SMEs, and of Trade.
