Overview
- CAME reports a rising wave of shutdowns across multiple sectors in Argentina, including food producers.
- Recent examples cited by the group include Whirlpool’s plant closure that affected about 220 workers and the dairy company La Suipachense.
- The business chamber links the trend to a demand slump that is curbing retailers’ orders to factories after its push for longer installment plans stalled under the government’s non‑intervention stance.
- It also warns that increased import competition—particularly products from China—is displacing local goods.
- CAME highlights what it calls a roughly 50% tax load on domestic products, while former production minister José Ignacio De Mendiguren framed Whirlpool’s exit as a broader warning and noted the plant’s exports to Brazil.