New round: Julián Domínguez strongly criticizes refrigerators for exporting meat

“Let’s split up the issue of export restrictions, that is an argument of refrigerators. Argentina can export everything that is in an export position ”, the country’s Minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries, Julián Domínguez, firmly said today at a press conference, after presenting GanAr’s plan for development of animals.

“I’ll repeat it until I get tired, this is an argument to press permanently for more permissions for more export quotas”, The officer’s stance in the tone between anger and tiredness. “When you see that we export approximately 800 thousand tonsseeing that this argument has no reason to be ”, he stressed.

On Tuesday, ABC-grouped refrigerator exporters released a statement asking, given the drop in international meat prices, “re-evaluate overseas sales operations and reorganize the cost structure to update exports in this new scenario“.

And in mid -March of this year, the ABC Meat Exporters Consortium threatened leave the national Cortes Care programstopped offering a series of agreed price reductions accessible to supermarkets.

The Government considered the attitude as “outdated and irrational.” In response, Domínguez warned that those who did not comply with the agreement would not be able to export. Ultimately, none of this happened, but refrigerators insisted that restrictions on overseas sales, added to competition from the informal sectors operating the activity, were detrimental to their companies.

Now, at a new crossroads with exporting refrigerators, Domínguez clarified: “I’m putting the point here because there is permanent confusion among businesses in the market. We Argentines can’t be so stupid: we work of great effort in production, investment, export, and we ourselves speak about export restrictions “. and repeated that in Argentina everything that can be sold is exported: “What we can’t sell are mothers because we will be suicidal, irresponsible. I have no doubt you are They will tell me that I am a jerk if we export mothers to productive capacity“, he pointed out.

And he insisted that we should develop a “policy of capitalizing our own animals.” In this way, he said “the centrality of the Ministry will be placed on the manufacturer”.