Huawei Mate X2 at Mobile World Congress last year. AFP photo
After announcing the return to the sale of its products, the Chinese tech giant Huawei predicts play cellular devices in Argentina next year, Carlos Morales Flores, the company’s director for Latin America, told news agency Télam.
“There are plans to have Huawei mobile phones in Argentina again. Telephony will return next year, “said Morales Flores, who specified that” the plan is to have telephony and comply with local regulations, so in that case we will stick. It will be necessary to respect that mandate to produce in Argentina ”, he remarked.
For more than 10 years and on the basis of non-automatic licenses and the tax regime that regulates the import of electronic products, the Special Customs Area of Tierra del Fuego has been promoted as a production center for the manufacture of cellular devices.
Cell phones Huawei began production in 2010 in Tierra del Fuegoat the company plant BGHbut in 2019, operations in the country were halted.
“A few years ago there was a difficult global environment that forced us to take a break from business. We didn’t want to leave for so long. The break we took lasted much longer than expected, but now we are happy to be back Argentine market”Said Morales Flores.
He stressed that for the Chinese company “the Argentine market is one of the most important” in the world and stressed that there is “great potential at the moment” to develop business in the country.
The BGH plant in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego. IPO photos Santa Cruz
“We stopped but we have been present in the country for 21 years. Despite what is said about the economic environment which can sometimes be unfavorable, Huawei has been around for many years and we are very confident in the country’s ability to move forward. Otherwise we would not be here ”, assured the executive.
In recent weeks, Huawei has announced the restart of its product marketing operations in the country with the arrival of two smartwatches, a portable speaker and a laptop.
“We will offer notebooks, audio products and watches. We are optimistic about the development of notebooks and audio in Argentina. We will build the ecosystem again, “said Morales Flores, who anticipated that” there are plans to bring more products “.
The return of the sale of products in Argentina
Huawei laptops, tablets and mobile phones, the most sought after products. (Photo by STR / AFP) / China OUT
Earlier this month, Huawei resumed device sales in Argentina after two years of absence. While strengthening the business of telecommunications networks, where 5G development pays offthe brand has arrived with laptops, smartwatches and wireless speakers, paving the way for the imminent landing of its cell phones.
Huawei Consumer Business Group (CBG), the division of the technology giant Huawei dedicated to the development and production of consumer electronics, has reactivated its activities in Argentina from the second week of May.
“The Argentine market is very important to us and, after the global environment has motivated us to suspend operations in this country, we are very pleased to bring our products back to Argentine users, who will now be able to take advantage of the devices designed. to make your life easier”Said Cristina Yi, Chief Marketing Officer of Huawei CBG in Latin America.
Huawei, on the other hand, plans to go beyond the brand new IoT devices it has started marketing in the country. In the near future there is the goal of regaining the ground lost later leaving the business in 2019when he launched the P30 Lite.
The task, a priori, will not be easy given that it will have to compete in a market dominated by Samsung and Motorola, which share more than 90% of the cake between them, and with a Xiaomi that landed in mid-2021.
The first products offered in the country after a break of just over two years are the Band 6 and WATCH FIT smartwatches, the Sound Joy wireless speaker and the ultra-thin MateBook D 14 laptop.
With information from Telam
Source: Clarin
