“Last year was the year our country’s economic data was closest to Brazil’s since the 1920s. Brazil’s statistics were 6.7 billion US dollars, while ours was 6.5 billion US dollars.
The difference is not too big, but in fact there are too many crises in our country. The peso has depreciated and the exchange rate has not changed. Economically speaking, especially the import and export data, the gap with Brazil is actually too far..."
St. Hesse was bragging to the Minister of Foreign Trade. This was the headline news of tomorrow's "Xin'an Daily". The data had been approved by the reporter of the newspaper and the International Department of the Falcon Bureau.
This morning I have obtained the economic performance data of the two countries last year, which can be used to make a comparison. Brazil is an object worthy of vigilance. St. Jose's "Brazilian Threat Theory" is operated by the International Department of the Falcon Bureau and is collecting various information. intelligence.
In fact, the overall economic situation in Argentina last year was very poor. Even the size of San Jose was not worth mentioning in front of the entire country. Only the town of María developed reasonably well and became the second largest economic city in the province. The others did not. Any changes and differences.
As soon as St. Jesus finished speaking, a voice came from behind. To be honest, the minister was a little impatient with his bragging. He felt that this young man was too good at bragging and it was unreliable.
Moreover, he knows everything about Brazil. He is really more bragging than President Bilon, but it is not easy to offend the heir of Prari International (the identity of the spokesperson of Saint Jose is speaking in the name of the heir of Prari International, Saint Jose In order to hide himself, a retired old man was arranged at Prali International),
I had no choice but to listen politely to what he continued. When the boss of the Andepest Garment Factory interrupted, Mr. Minister quickly excused himself to the toilet and left, leaving Saint Jose feeling a little regretful.
"Hello, Saint Jose Cohen, the current small boss of Prairie International."
Saint-Jesse shook hands with the factory director politely, intending to see if this guy had the guts to interrupt him.
"Hello, Anderpeth Rod, the director of a small clothing factory, I admire you very much. The speech you just gave was so wonderful."
Rhodes shook hands respectfully. After listening to Saint Jose's long speech, he felt that it made sense, so he intervened.
"Mr. St. Hesse, in addition to listening to your speech and the chat just now, there is another thing I want to ask you to cooperate with."
"Oh, what about cooperation? Let's talk about it over here."
Since he is his admirer, forget it. Saint Jose felt better. To be honest, he was still a little unaccustomed to speaking in front of hundreds of businessmen and officials. He still needed to adapt. Originally, they were mostly soldiers, workers and security guards. Members brag.
Judging from the looks of it, this guy is probably less than 30 years old, and he is quite young and promising. Could it be that he plans to use Prali's fleet for export?
"Mr. St. Hesse, I wonder if you can introduce me to someone from Blue Cloud Clothing Company. They are so awesome. I want to learn from them and become their OEM, but their boss is too mysterious."
"Oh? Why do you want to meet people from a clothing factory? Don't you own a clothing factory yourself?"
"It's like this. Didn't Lanyun Garment Factory recruit some OEMs? I intended to become an OEM, but they thought Putrajaya was too far away, so they didn't succeed. Prali International is the largest overseas agent, so there may be a way. , I’ll come over and try.”
Is it Blue Cloud Shoes and Clothing Company? This year, San Jose will build a large factory in Putrajaya and also plan the layout of the textile industry. As a light industry, the investment in the clothing and textile industry is not that big, and it can still make a lot of money, which is also the focus. project.
"Well, you can tell me your plan, and I'll listen. If appropriate, I can recommend it to you."
So the two chatted about a lot of "big things". This guy named Rhodes had a lot of old factories and some old equipment. He was a Caudillo convert, but because he had no experience, his family fortune was ruined. St. Hesse carefully used the interview method to examine Rhodes and thought it was okay. He gave him the contact information of the person in charge of Lanyun shoes and clothing and asked him to go to Maria Town to discuss cooperation.
This year, he plans to expand the scale of Lanyun Shoes and Clothing to more than 7,000 people. He plans to build a branch factory in Putrajaya with more than 2,000 people. At the same time, he will set up a textile factory with 1,000 people to develop upstream of the textile industry. The light industry can still accumulate It costs a lot of money and the technical requirements are not high.
The two chatted happily, and Saint Jose left the banquet. Tomorrow is the day when the Argentine Import and Export Trade Association will be listed. Almost everyone at the scene has already implicitly planned to join this new organization.
Saint Jose met many people like Caudillo at the banquet, and truly penetrated into the enemy. Their natural arrogance and lowness mixed together, allowing Saint Jose to see some hatred in their eyes, and seized the opportunity. People and money are like murderers and arsonists, let alone being manipulated by a boastful president. They don't know how much money they have made in the past few years.
The export tax is too high and the Argentine government's purchase price is low, which reduces competitiveness and almost doubles the cost. In order to save themselves and reduce losses, some Caudillos even abandoned a lot of wheat and corn fields, indirectly This has aggravated Argentina’s drought-related production losses in the past two years.
Many cattle and sheep were also killed, and Argentina's agriculture suffered heavy losses.
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The next day, the Minister of Foreign Trade was responsible for cutting the ribbon, and the Argentine Trade Import and Export Association was officially established. Saint Jose sponsored a batch of start-up funds, and No. 188 May Avenue, Putrajaya was established. The atmosphere at the scene was still very warm.
Joining a trade association allows you to share information, and you only need to pay a small membership fee every year to have a distinguished experience, which is equivalent to a circle and a club.
The competent department of the association is the Ministry of Foreign Trade. The first president unit is Prali International. The vice president unit also has several trading companies with military backgrounds. The other members are ordinary members.
This association has the following goals and daily routine:
1. Contact and promote Argentina’s import and export trade business, such as joint export teams, fleets, etc., for cooperative ship chartering, etc.
2. Assist in the implementation and optimization of import and export trade policies, investigate and report on domestic and foreign business conditions, especially Western Europe, Argentina’s most important export region and market, as well as South American markets represented by Brazil, Peru, and Chile, and develop new export markets such as New markets such as Australia, South Africa, Japan, and Southeast Asia compete with American agriculture and animal husbandry.
3. Investigate, research and compile statistics on imported and exported commodities, assist in increasing production and improving domestic export materials, and unite and cooperate with domestic companies.
4. Protect and promote the rights and benefits of the import and export industry. In particular, the association has also established branches in various industries such as commerce, agriculture, and animal husbandry to stay together.
5. Provide improvement suggestions to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the competent trade authority, and be entrusted by the competent trade authority to handle matters related to the development of import and export trade.
The most important purpose of the association is to promote the establishment of a new trade tax law and customs law in Argentina, and to let everyone wave the flag and cheer for the presidential palace to reduce export tax rates.
For a long time, Argentina's economic development strategy has always oscillated between an "external strategy" that prioritizes agricultural exports and an "inward strategy" that is characterized by export substitution for industrialization. Obviously Argentina does not have a population of hundreds of millions as a market. To develop export substitution industrialization, it relies on The international market develops the domestic industrial system,
It is an inevitable choice. When the population increases, it will be too late. At most, it will be like Egypt.
Argentina has many favorable conditions for developing export agriculture. However, compared with the export scale and competitiveness of the agricultural sector, Argentina's industrial exports lag behind in development and have obvious weaknesses.
In the Import and Export Association, there are also many agricultural companies and farms, most of which are from Buenos Aires, accounting for 80% of the quota. This is inevitable. This is the only industry in which Argentina's exports can still be considered marginally advantageous.
Although the tariffs for exporting grain and beef are also very high, the cost is indeed much lower than industrial production like the United States. In the natural grasslands of the Pampas, Argentina currently rarely uses chemical fertilizers for farming, and it can exploit farmers, so the cost is pitifully low. , still has an export advantage.
But this is based on the fact that farmers continue to run into the slums of Putrajaya. This actually greatly hinders the growth of Argentina's population. The post-war period was the fastest period of population growth in human history.
Even Japan, an old capitalist country, has added 30 to 40 million people. Japan's urbanization rate this year is just over 36%. What about Argentina? It's close to 60%. This is really a crime.
This is also a big problem, but it is not the most important problem to solve at present. Without population, how can we talk about industrialization and too rapid urbanization?
However, it has greatly damaged Argentina’s growth potential and made many friends. You must know that in the past few decades, Argentine families basically had seven or eight children. Nowadays, three or four children in cities are considered very good.
Like the current Vice Chairman of the Radical Party, he had 10 brothers and sisters in his family when he was a child. He is 44 years old this year.
Bevita, the first lady of Argentina, had seven or eight children at home when she was a child. She is only 33 years old this year. However, according to the research in the slums of San Jose, she is very pessimistic. She has no money, and has given birth to few children. She is short-term. In just one generation, things have turned upside down.
Too many Argentine farmers have fled, and the slums are overwhelmed, but there are landed aristocrats in the countryside, and there is no sign of the industrial farm in San Jose.
Preparing to build an industrial farm also requires mechanization. Fortunately, there is a lot of good news about Japanese walk-behind tractors and motorcycles. If everything goes well, it will be put into production by the end of the year, in time for next year's spring plowing and summer harvest.
Kubota is the fourth Japanese company invested by Saint Jose. Kubota Agricultural Machinery Co., Ltd. had sales of 2.2 billion yen last year, equivalent to an annual turnover of more than 6 million U.S. dollars. Kubota developed rapidly during World War II and was replaced in 1949. The successor is the new heir,
It still has good technology. Saint-Jesse used Rennes Industrial Investment to obtain 10% of the shares and bought a production line. Together with Honda Motor Co., Ltd.’s motorcycle production line, it has already moved south from Tokyo Port and is preparing to pass through Singapore and then go to the Pacific Ocean. Route, to make your home in the city of La Plata.
Walk-behind tractors can be regarded as the industrial limit that Argentina can accept at present, and they are serious high-precision projects.
In the era of backward mechanization, the walking tractor is a small tractor. It is now popular in Europe and the United States as a means of transportation and agricultural machinery. It is powered by diesel. Its small size, flexibility and strong power are loved by farmers.
A walking tractor has a simple structure and low power, and is suitable for small plots of land. The driver holds the handrail to control the operating mechanism, pull or drive the supporting agricultural tools to perform operations.
Compared with the investment in a four-wheel tractor, this is quite cheap and very cost-effective.
Moreover, the construction period is not long, and it is barely better than the current animal power such as cattle in Argentina. There are also Honda motorcycles that can add a carriage and make three-wheeled motorcycles for rural transportation. It is very convenient. If you use two wheels, at least it will be a lot. Freeing up human resources, you can have babies with peace of mind,
In the future, four-wheel tractors can only buy technology and production lines from Italy, Germany and France. Four-wheel tractors can be regarded as the pearl industry of industrial civilization after automobiles.
At present, the cost is too expensive to afford this for the time being, and it is more appropriate to take one step at a time. Argentina is not yet able to afford four-wheel tractors.
The investment scale is really calculated based on more than 20 million U.S. dollars. San Jose also estimated the investment scale of Xinhuaxia's Yituo Factory in the future. The number of supporting workers in the factory alone starts at 30,000 to 40,000. Such a large investment , Can't stand it, the steel plant alone is already strenuous enough.
By the end of the 1940s, in the United States and Canada in North America, Germany, France, Britain, Italy, the Netherlands and other countries in Western Europe, as well as Australia and New Zealand, tractors had become popular to replace livestock, and agriculture developed rapidly.
It has become the main driving force for the development of farms. Now tractors have been promoted and used in Eastern Europe, Asia, South America and Africa, replacing animal power. In comparison, there are very few farms in Argentina that use tractors for production, and the agricultural potential is not full. excitation.
Compared with guns and ammunition, tractors, an industrial industry that began with the second industrial revolution, are really difficult. Moreover, if you have a thorough understanding of diesel engine technology, you can also train talents and introduce heavy truck projects in the future.
As for the first step of trade tariff reform, the public opinion foundation has been completed. The next step is to engage in other things. After all, this can only be regarded as an industry association. It is still impossible for them to get ahead. Everyone is a refined egoist, and the icing on the cake can still be done. , but no one is so stupid to let others take the lead.
Unite some interest groups, and those who really want to make things happen will be led by radical party members, and the power of newspapers will be used to guide public opinion.
During the formation of the association to contact various import and export companies, Saint-Jesse also arranged and handled some matters, such as the establishment of the Seediq cement plant and brick factory, and the commissioning of the Rennes fertilizer plant, which were all very important.
There are also the establishment of agricultural companies, the construction of Morado Town, the expansion of Thunder Mining, the upcoming harvest of tobacco leaves in the cigarette factory, the preparation of industrial farms, and the return of the Japanese investment team, all of which require his personal involvement.
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I asked someone from the Falcon Bureau to send a message to Rosa. After Saint-Jesse finished handling the association's affairs, he went to the Radical Party Propaganda Department to prepare to ask for instructions from his superiors to force him to do something. Then he went home to be with Elena, and at the same time he was writing at home. East and west, the Xin'a newspaper office is also a top priority and will be an important part of the public opinion bombardment of the presidential palace.
San Jose's goals are very simple, namely the following two, and the main measures taken are:
1. Provide export companies with export tariff exemptions, export tax rebates, export subsidies, export credit and export insurance, etc., with the purpose of reducing export costs, exploring foreign markets, and enhancing export competitiveness.
This clause is no longer limited to tax cuts, but also requires money from the national treasury. Not to mention that the Argentine treasury has no money. Even if it has money, it is impossible, at least not currently. It is impossible to agree to this condition. The requirements are very high.
2. Provide low-interest production loans to export production enterprises, give priority to the foreign exchange required for imported equipment and raw materials, and vigorously introduce capital, technology, and business management knowledge, with the purpose of reducing production costs, improving product quality, and increasing foreign exchange earning capabilities.
This article is not so harsh. In comparison, it is relatively easy to achieve. This is the purpose of Saint Jose. These requirements are full of nonsense and need to be constantly improved.
But in fact, many other 90% cannot be done. That is the simplest and core one, which is also the bottom line of Saint Jose, which is to reduce export tariffs. This is also his ultimate goal. The other bells and whistles are just as some chips,
Asking for prices all over the place, just sit back and pay back. The higher the price you offer, the harder you pay back. If there is one more, you will make a lot of money.
This important information has been included in Saint-Jesse's monthly internal reference message to the Radical Party Committee, and is intended to be submitted through Representative Louis.
This is very important to him. He cannot promote such national-level policies, but Arturo can. He has some positions in the presidential palace.
Moreover, no one can ignore the power of the Radical Party in parliament, and as long as this kind of thing is completed, it will be a real political achievement, and it can also stab the current president in the back. I believe that this next presidential candidate who has presidential ambitions will win the election. When the time comes, it can be turned into a slogan immediately, and it will definitely make people's hearts beat. This is also a conspiracy.
And in fact, the presidential palace does not have the final say on legislation. Argentina has three branches of power. The presidential palace can only influence, but cannot completely suppress the opinions of others, especially the opinions of the highest legislative body, the Congress, unless it wants to be a true dictatorship. But power comes from the bottom up, and no matter how powerful Bilong is, he would not dare to ignore the opinions of the lower levels.
So Saint-Jesse got all the latest lists from the Senate and the House of Representatives to see if he could win over some people outside the Radical Party to promote tariff legislation without adopting such a radical approach.
Without Bilon's approval, Argentina would not have transformed from a free trade country to what it is today. Parliament will also consider the president's economic policies. Even the customs is not completely independent, and the Justice Party has a strong position in parliament. There were enough of them, too, unless all the opposition parties could unite, which was impossible.
Although the presidential palace can also nominally pressure the parliament to legislate, this is only if no one objects. The real legislative power, in the Argentine constitution, belongs to the parliament.
St. Jose continued to write these articles, two lines, one was to promote legislation by the Radical Party, and the second was to use the pressure of public opinion from newspapers.
The Propaganda Department of the Radical Party does something very good and obscure, and cannot make the relationship too rigid or rigid.
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