Foreign Minister Santiago Cafiero raised the need to “continue opening markets” for exporting SMEs” from Argentina, when visiting the Cladan company in Pilar, in the presentation of the training for those interested in selling or increasing their shipments of merchandise to the United States .
“We are in a thriving company, which applies technology, innovation and development, with a mindset to train and continue opening markets and being part of the exporting SMEs,” said Cafiero, adding: “What is exported and produced here today is talent because it has high technical training; there are technologists who are working on it and incorporating Argentine talent in the production of a good”.
In this sense, the chancellor pointed out: “With the Argentine Agency and Investments and International Trade (Aaici) we have more than 100 participations in fairs this year and we have identified 320 dynamic SMEs from Sepyme and we want to identify many more; we help them in that trajectory. and we continue to open markets for our exporting SMEs”.
For Cafiero, “abandoning a model of financial speculation and moving towards a model of production and employment requires an extraordinary dynamism in exports to continue financing growth; that is the model we are working on, and the one we defend.”
Present at the event were the Secretary for Small and Medium Enterprises and Entrepreneurs, Guillermo Merediz; the mayor of Pilar, Federico Achával; the president of the Aaici, Juan Usandivaras; the undersecretary of Productivity and Regional SME Development, Pablo Bercovich; the Executive Director of the company Cladan, Martín Cardona; and the secretary general of the Municipality of Pilar, Soledad Peralta.
SMEs from different sectors that export or plan to export to the United States participated by videoconference; and Ambassador Jorge Argüello, in charge of training, presentation and characterization of the US market.
In turn, Merediz stated that “This training is part of a strategic and coordinated work agenda (…) so that more and more SMEs in Argentina continue to meet the goal of being in the most important markets.”
“Last year, Argentina had a record for SME exports with revenues of US$10.8 billion and more than 400 small and medium-sized companies increased their exports in 2021; that is why we believe that with more strategic training, more technical assistance and more financing we will be able to strengthen the export drive of our national SMEs”, he detailed.
Similarly, Argüello stressed that “the SMEs to the World program has a virtuous intersection with the Knowledge Economy; three months ago we met with Foreign Minister Cafiero and businessmen to analyze the SME market and its potential in the United States and , after the meeting, we received queries from these companies and we are in direct contact deepening the virtuous paths that exist between the SMEs to the World program and the Export Program”.
For his part, Achával asserted that “This government model grows from strengthening our SMEs and that is working together so that the State accompanies, opens new horizons and SMEs generate Argentine work”.
Martín Carmona, executive director of Cladan, emphasized “the importance of conquering and developing new markets through the Foreign Ministry and Sepyme, understanding that public-private articulation today is a fundamental tool for the great objective that we set for ourselves as a company “.
The “SMEs for the World” program seeks to promote exports, increase the participation of small and medium-sized Argentine companies in international trade, and promote export skills to improve competitiveness and productivity with a federal approach.
