The Argentine dairy sector is not competitive due to withholdings

(NAP) The Argentine dairy industry is not competitive because every time it has to go to foreign markets it must pay a 9% tariff in withholdings, in the case of powdered milk, while cheeses are taxed at 4.5%. %. To this must be added the increase in costs with the implementation of the agricultural dollar (corn) that was in effect until the end of August with the increase in the cost of materials and an international price for dairy products that operates downwards. This is how Flavio Mastellone, shareholder of Mastellone Hnos, the firm that owns the main shareholding of La Serenisima, sees it, who shared a talk with a group of journalists from the Association of Agri-Food Journalists of CABA (La Porteña), in which he analyzed the moment by which the national dairy industry passes, after a tour of the General Rodríguez industrial plant, Buenos Aires. “We are not competitive. That 9% hurts, because it is difficult to see that that percentage is received by a single line of the ...