Mexico City.- One of the worst slopes of January It is the one that will be experienced in 2021 due to the slow recovery of productive activity, especially in states that are experiencing a red light, warned the president of the Confederation of National Chambers of Commerce, Services and Tourism (Concanaco Servytur), José Manuel López Fields.
Economic expectations are not very optimistic, as a growth of the economy of the country is anticipated not greater than 3.5%, indicated the leader.
2020, he assured, will close with a decrease of more than 40% in the economic impact of the last month of the year compared to 2019, due to the conditions imposed by the pandemic, in addition, January will show difficulties in many sectors, for this reason a of the worst “january slopes”In recent years.
Although December represented an economic respite for many companies in localities that were not in traffic lights epidemiological In red, it will not be enough to close 2020 well, for the commercial and service sectors, where the largest number of jobs are concentrated in our country, López Campos said in a statement.
In 2021 a slight recovery is expected in the country’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which from January to September of this 2020 had a variation of -9.8 percent, which would affect the expected annual growth for the following years.
He specified that important sectors of economic activity in Mexico have suffered paralysis, such as tourism, where hotel occupancy until last October averaged 25.6 percent, which represented -34.5 percent compared to the same period of 2019.
In the statistics of occupied rooms, also until October, compared to the previous year, there was a decrease of -57.4 percent, going from 246 thousand 441 to 105 thousand 036.
López Campos pointed out that these figures influenced so that the trade balance from January to last October had a balance of 5 thousand 911 million dollars, a figure lower by 51 percent than that reported in the same period of 2019.
It should be remembered that on December 16, the National Minimum Wage Commission (Conasami) approved by majority a salary increase for next year of 15% general, and 15% for the Free Zone of the Northern Border, this despite the discrepancy by the Employers’ Confederation of the Mexican Republic (Coparmex).
Thus, the minimum wage will rise from $ 123.22 to $ 141.70; while in the Free Zone of the Northern Border it goes from $ 185.56 to $ 213.39.
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– Concanaco Servytur (@Concanaco) December 27, 2020
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