An alternative economic strategy among major industrialists?

Abstract

The UIA's (Argentine Industrial Union) internal elections in 2017 have underscored a rupture between major industrialists: whereas one sector advocates for a greater trade integration with China, which would enable the expansion of agricultural manufacturing exports, another sector discourages such rapprochement, which would entail removing restrictions on the entry of Chinese products. The former strategy is promoted by the Coordination Committee of Food Industry, about which we will deepen in this paper. The question that guides us is: does COPAL represent an alternative economic strategy among major industrialists? In order to answer it, we will focus on reconstructing a topic which has not been explored by historiography, the origins of the Coordinating Committee, in April 1975. We will examine the context in which it emerged, the capitals that have participated in it, the reasons that have led to its creation and their positions within a critical juncture: the twilight of the third Peronist