Overview

• Santa Fe business groups rallied in downtown Rosario, estimating about 15,000 SME closures nationwide in 2025, including roughly 1,500 in the province, and pushed to enshrine SMEs as essential to the provincial economy in the new constitution.
• More than 120 Buenos Aires province SME leaders met with Minister Augusto Costa, warning of further layoffs and shutdowns despite provincial credit lines and programs they described as insufficient without macroeconomic support.
• Provincial data reported over 15,500 company closures since Javier Milei took office and more than 220,000 registered jobs lost nationally, with industrial output in the first half of 2025 sitting 10.3% below the same period in 2023.
• Following the resignation of Marcos Ayerra, the national government disbanded the SME secretariat and shifted its functions to the Secretariat of Productive Coordination within the Economy Ministry, drawing concern from CAME about the loss of institutional engagement.
• Decree 339/2025 repealed key provisions of Laws 24.467 and 25.872, including the SME tax-credit regime, while Industriales PyMEs Argentinos said it will send a RIPI bill to Congress proposing tax incentives and 10-year stability for manufacturing firms.