Imported Food Products Are Allowed a Mirage?

Are you predicting a shortage of trucks, drivers and customs inspectors......?
You possibly know more about logistics than me, but my impression was that products are delivered just-in-time and spare capacity is not just sitting about waiting to be redirected for events like this.
 
i don’t know too much about logistics, but i do know that counterintuitively, shipping by trucks from chile and other neighboring countries is far more expensive than by container ship.
 
Maybe container shipment route Valparaiso Port to BA port, is cheaper..? , must find out..? same for Montevideo to BS.As.
 
Dia will import food products? and will play a major role over the ones that have overseas products in stock..? across the borders.
Agree the chinese may not import.
I’m confused here. In the US and Western Europe there are logistics chains where specialists in products, especially commodity products such as supermarket staples, intermediate combining local and imported commodities looking for efficient pricing and storing and distribution. Consumer distributors such as supermarkets generally get the bulk of there supplies from these intermediaries - even companies such as Walmart and Aldi who often contract with produced food product manufacturers for lower prices and perhaps store brand labels - are using the same logistics channels. (Note that this leads to truly awful “fresh” products in the US with Europe similarly following along)

Is that not the case here? Is my local Bolivian fruitaria getting supplied by his uncle over a porous border?
 
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Hot take: nothing will materialize, and it's just another fake threat against the actual caste while the average Argentine slips further in to poverty. This would require Milei to actually do something, and, as many of us said pre-election, he's more interested in being a president on Twitter than issuing DNUs to help people or compromising in Congress to get laws passed when he lacks a majority.

I personally love Argentine kabuki economics; consumption collapses and retailers simply choose to sit on stock rather than recover their original spend. Maybe they can write off losses? A 2L of Coke Zero now costs $2.53 @ Dia, same price as Walmart in California. While this is one item, tell me how sustainable this is? You don't need soft drinks, people can (and will) simply chose to stop drinking them. The only safe industries and businesses are likely inelastic goods at this point, but Mileinomics so far seems to be shitting the bed.

VLLC!
 
this is where Milei, or whoever is in power, should be concentrating efforts. Raising the fare on the colectivos is not going to be anywhere as good for the country as getting rid of export taxes. Argentina has an amazing industrial base, and it is going to throw it away if all he does is get rid of import restrictions.
Other governments of countries that manufacture have government programs that actively HELP local companies export. Argentina does so much to discourage exports of value added goods, and thats just wrong...
 
Bear in mind that major supermarkets supply only 30 percent of the foodstuffs and other products, the main balance 70 % goes thru small almacenes and other neighbourhood chino's, etc.

Bread loaves made with Argentine wheat will come from Brazil, 15 % cheaper ?? Will be available in smaller shops..?
 
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