Tag: argentine industry

• Friday, May 17th 2024 - 11:59 UTC

  Argentina's industrial activity keeps dropping

  

  Despite victorious announcements from President Javier Milei's government, industrial activity in Argentina fell for the tenth consecutive month amid a growing loss of purchasing power. Interannually, a 17.2% drop was recorded after March's 4.7% decline. In addition, the first quarter of 2024 showed a year-on-year 11.7% slide.

• Monday, September 26th 2022 - 10:16 UTC

  All tire-manufacturing plants in Argentina close down

  

  Argentina has ceased to be a tire-manufacturing country as labor conflicts resulted in the closing of all three plants nationwide, although some of these measures have been reported to be a temporary issue.

• Saturday, March 27th 2021 - 08:47 UTC

  Argentina's exports rise 9.1% year-on-year, but for smaller volumes

  

  Argentina's National Institute for Statistics and Census (INDEC) Friday announced the country's exports increased 9.1% since March 2020, while imports went up 16.4% for the same period of time, for a combined foreign trade worth of US $ 8,488 million, 12.1% above last year's figures.

• Friday, June 5th 2020 - 08:30 UTC

  Argentina's industrial output collapsed 33,5% in April compared to April 2019

  

  Argentina's industrial output crashed 33.5% in April from the same month last year, the government's statistics agency said on Thursday, as the national lockdown to fight the coronavirus pandemic bludgeoned Latin America's No. 3 economy.

• Thursday, February 6th 2020 - 08:24 UTC

  Argentina industrial production up 1.2% in December, first time in 20 months

  

  Argentina's industrial output rose 1.2% in December versus the same month a year earlier, the government statistics agency said on Wednesday, returning to positive territory for the first time in 20 months as the country grapples with the recession.

• Saturday, December 14th 2019 - 09:30 UTC

  “Bad news” for Argentine industry: Fernández's emergency decree doubles compensation for 180 days

  

  The president of Argentina, Alberto Fernández, established through a Decree of Necessity and Urgency the double compensation to workers for a period of 180 days in case of “dismissals without just cause” and “given the need to stop the worsening of the labor crisis “ The business sector receives it as ”bad news.”

• Tuesday, May 7th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentina's recession steams on: industrial output in March dropped 13.4%

  

  Argentina's industrial output slid a steeper-than-expected 13.4% in March compared with the same month last year, the government's Indec statistics agency said on Monday, as the recession-hit economy struggles to return to growth.

• Thursday, February 7th 2019 - 10:05 UTC

  Manufacturing in Argentina was 5% down during 2018

  

  Manufacturing performance in Argentina during 2018 was one of the worst since the 2001/02 collapse and melting of the country's economy according to the latest release from the stats office, Indec. Manufacturing dropped 14.7% in December compared to the same month in 2017, ending 2018 with an overall decrease of 5%.