“WE ARE THE MOST SOCIAL INDUSTRY IN MEXICO”: AGUIRRE LANG

“We are the most social industry in Mexico,” said the president of the National Council of the Maquiladora and Export Manufacturing Industry (index), Luis Aguirre Lang in the meeting with the President of Mexico with this important sector in Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua.

Luis Aguirre assured before President Andrés Manuel López Obrador that the sector is generating the possibility for the Mexican youth who begins their productive life, to see with vision their incorporation to the present and the future in the social village. He said that export manufacturers have for the country the language of technologies that applies to services and products for world consumption.

Luis Aguirre continued saying that the national reality to improve the spectrum with social welfare is a common goal between the private sector and the government as it is looking for more opportunities beyond any thought boundary. He confirmed to the President that the social change in Mexico can be complemented by the Mexican export industry as an ally of the “Fourth Transformation”, as part of the change and a bridge with industrial modernity.

Aguirre Lang said that the sector he leads is committed to serve more to the country, positively reinforcing and socializing all the federal programs that the President has proposed and in which the manufacturing export industry sector is involved like no one else. He finished by saying that one of the crucial objectives of the USMCA is to improve the working conditions in Mexico.

In this regard, Aguirre Lang proposed to the President the creation of an immediate communication mechanism between the government and the private sector, in order to monitor the process of implementing the USMCA and compliance with labor regulations. He ask for his intervention so that no penalty is applied during the process of evidence relief before the solutions panel.

He also proposed a new IMMEX 4.0 legal framework for the Mexican export industry with more aggressive investment promotion programs that integrate aspects not only of international competitiveness, but of social responsibility and sustainability, that help retain, maintain and attract more investments for more employment and social welfare. He added that it is urgent to reform and update the decree that is regulating and promoting current manufacturing operations. A single tax and foreign trade declaration is required with a unique paperwork center with pre-loaded information so that federal entities have direct access in order to optimize times and costs for both authority and companies.

Another proposal is to carry out a public sector consultation with the more of 3 million families within the export industry which represents 17.3% of the national affiliations in the IMSS and contribute with more than $194 billion dollars exports, achieved with great effort, from January to September 2019.

He added the need to launch a public consultation, so that the President of Mexico, first hand, could perceive with his own indicators, the social scope of the industry and decides the federal prioritization of addressing the multiple impacts and current challenges that has the most social industry from Mexico.

The claim of National index is to increase social welfare indicators in Mexico. The average monthly remuneration in this export manufacturing sector is $16,945 Mexican pesos, according to the INEGI Economic Census 2019. The stigma that the manufacturing industry pays few taxes is incorrect, the annual income tax payment is around 20 billion pesos and another 11 billion for the payroll tax. From January to September last year, the sector generated a spill of more than $554 billion pesos for payroll and benefits, plus nearly $58 billion pesos, for employer contributions to social security, through 6 thousand 317 companies, which not only operates in the northern part of Mexico, but also in the Center-West-Bajío of the country.