Overview
- After a joint meeting in Rosario, the business groups issued a public alert documenting falling sales, shrinking production and more firms entering crisis and bankruptcy proceedings.
- CAME reports national retail sales fell 5.5% in December and 4.5% in January, while SME industrial output dropped 7.3% year over year in January with capacity use at 61%.
- FISFE says Santa Fe’s manufacturing output declined 9.8% year over year in December, with 68% of industrial branches contracting.
- Between December 2023 and October 2025 the province lost about 300 industrial establishments and 8,000 factory jobs, and it began 2026 with 3,936 workers suspended across 44 companies, mostly in metalworking.
- The groups warn that opening imports without structural reforms will hasten unemployment and erode wages, and they urge reviving consumption incentives such as Ahora 12.