“I’m not saying they do it on purpose. But sometimes it seems They don’t want us to get to 500,000. “
The sentence, from a manager who was walking around the Parque Norte property during the Industrial Union meeting on Thursday, was just discovered (late at night) that Nissan it will end the week with an almost total suspension of its activities in Cordoba (except Monday shift), where the pick up takes place Border.
The reason? I couldn’t count car parts necessary, which in turn also meant having to stop the production of the pick up Renault of Alaskaproduced on the same production line.
The executive’s sentence, from a car manufacturer located in another province, alluded to both the official policy of restricting imports and the number of vehicles that the local auto industry plans to produce this year.
If the line of 500,000 units per year is exceeded, It will be the first time this has happened since 2015.Cristina Kirchner’s last year as president.
The terminals, grouped in the Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ADEFA) are in a relatively unprecedented situation: almost everyone has at least one vehicle with a good level of demand abroad, especially in Brazil. It happens with Toyota (Hilux and SW4), VW (Taos and Amarok), Mercedes Benz (Sprinter), Ford (Ranger)fiat (Chrono), Peugeot (208) and Chevrolet (Through and the new one out pursuer).
The sector data is good: in ten months they have assembled 446,000 vehiclesof which they exported almost 270,000, 55%. The 500,000 barrier is a circuit lap and everything indicates that this figure will be reached. But the lack of fuel, which are i Dollarsit’s a permanent threat.
Fiat, one of the strongest in terms of production (indicates 82,000 units for this year) should have stopped at three occasionsand so did the tractor factory for nearly two days CNH. Renault and Nissan had already suspended the new non-automatic import authorization system, the SIRA. But that had been for a production shift, just one day. paralysis now It was for almost a whole week.
Neither in Renault nor in Nissan they replied to consult this newspaper. But in another of the car manufacturers they gave some clues as to the reasons for these suspensions. In all of them the basic problem is the same: the lack of authorization to be able to buy dollars from the Central Bank and therefore pay foreign suppliers. But there are also nuances, as described in one of the terminals.
“There are a lot of ignorance about SIRA among the providers. stationery etc. There are many different realities of suppliers and each of them knows what is up to the system and their roles. The only thing we can do is accompany. It is impossible to keep track of all supplier rings“.
Source: Clarin
