Los argentinos tenemos una relación complicada con la industria textil: quienes pueden viajar al exterior suelen preferir abastecerse allí antes que comprar ropa en el país. Tiempo atrás, con un dólar que cotizaba a mucho menos de la mitad de los $28 en los que ronda en la actualidad, muchas personas aprovechaban sus viajes a Miami; Chile u otros destinos turísticos para renovar el vestidor. El motivo: en ambos lugares las prendas eran mucho (pero mucho) más baratas que en Argentina.

The ProTejer Foundation, which represents local textile entrepreneurs, has an original explanation of why clothes are so expensive in the country. With an infographic of a T-shirt, they marked how the price of a brand garment sold in a shopping mall is made up. "despite the widespread idea that it is industrial entrepreneurs who are responsible for the price of clothing, industry represents only 8.5% of the final price of clothing," they claimed from the entity.

Yeal Kim, owner of ProTejer, explained that 12.7% of this price corresponds to the rental value; 12.2% to bank charges; 9% to logistics and marketing; 4.8% to brand profitability; and 2.5% to advertising and design. "if we gave our product, it would only drop 10%. It's still expensive. With the devaluation the vast majority of Argentine clothes, in dollars, is no more expensive than abroad," said the Korean textile entrepreneur in dialogue with La Nación +.

In response to this proposal, Profile consulted two economists to explain the situation. Focus Market Director Damián Di pace said: "there are several factors that make us wear expensive in Argentina. The garment has to pay high taxes in our country, the value addition involved in each input (such as a button, closure, yarn) has the high cost of distribution and integration of each part in the garment by the rise of tariffs and naphtha, which impacts on the production or simple distribution of each one."

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"today the salary measured in dollars was cleared by devaluation and for a long time competing with the low Chinese wages was an even greater disadvantage than today. Meanwhile, at the expense of production, marketing includes all the costs of services and rental of a place plus royalty (copyright payment) by brand and advertising by the manufacturer, which is common in any country in the world," he added in a telephone dialogue with this portal.

The author of Economy Pyme completed: "one myth that broke even in Argentina is that importing garments and competing against the local manufacturer the prices we pay for dressing would be lower. However, taxes here are also high. From the importer to retail in the link add margins and cost."

Miguel Boggiano, economist, told Profile: "Let's start with a common denominator: like all products in Argentina, you pay every time you buy something 50% in taxes. This can be seen on the clothes, on the naphtha, on the food, anywhere. When you wonder how expensive things are, if you compare it to other countries, one of the first things to see is how much taxes have an impact. Taxes are enormously expensive in Argentina because we have a giant state that, even though it is the country that pays the most taxes in the world, because we have nothing more than the Comoros Islands that nobody knows about them. "

"we are a society that has hanged us private people to finance a giant state, which was transformed by the Kirchners (Nestor and Cristina). Mauricio Macri's criticism is then that he is not encouraged, can't or doesn't know how to defuse that bomb. He didn't collaborate much either because at first he was still on the moon of Valencia, he even put in a little expense and when he realized he had to start deflating it was late," he said.

And he concluded: "there is another component to analyze that is logistics and here this is also a common denominator in many products. Logistics in Argentina is expensive because naphtha is expensive, and naphtha is expensive because half are taxes. The State is present in all things that we do, it is biting something. Clothes are expensive in themselves, logistics is expensive because there is also the State. As we have inflation are expensive and all financial costs. The State is the problem, not the solution, and since it is so big we can't.