From Industry to "Fun Park": the Crisis in Tierra Del Fuego Deepens

The recent decision to eliminate taxes on the import of cell phones and other electronic products put the economy of the island in check. 60,000 jobs could disappear in a province that "should be a park of world amusements that receives millions of tourists per year", according to the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, Federico Sturzenegger. Read more

Writing Open Channel The plan to open imports of the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo, to supposedly benefit consumers with lower prices arouses a strong rejection in the different industrial activities. Among them, in textiles, one of the most hit by the policy of lowering tariffs and the fall of domestic consumption. In this context, different organizations that nucleus cooperatives and workshops of seamstresses and other workers of th…

The minister said that the assembly factories of Tierra del Fuego are not necessary and that the province could make more money with tourism. The entry Sturzenegger on Tierra del Fuego: "It has everything to be a world amusement park" was first published in #BorderJournalism.

According to the Minister of Deregulation and Transformation of the State, "at some point we had made an estimate and the net loss of jobs by the island regime for the total of the country was about 60,000 jobs." "Opening the import of used capital goods is going to lead our capital goods industry to be world class in a few years. But if we kept the protection they would have stayed where they are," he said.

Minister Federico Sturzenegger acknowledged that the lowering of imported cellular tariffs will affect "about 60,000 jobs"

The Minister of Deregulation and State Transformation welcomed the drop in taxes despite corporate criticism. "Land of Fire should be a global amusement park," he said.