Five-Year Plans of Argentina

[1] The plan aimed to streamline all export and import regulations, including product classification, packaging, and quality standards, and to create a customs procedure that fit the needs of the time.

It decentralized and diversified industry, forming new productive areas, and placing them properly in terms of natural energy sources, means of communication, transportation and consumer markets.

[2][1] Article 2 authorized the government to fund the plan by issuing Public Debt Securities or using other means, with annual reporting to Congress.

The main actions included: The state managed exports of surplus domestic products and imported fuel, raw materials, and equipment essential for agriculture, industry, and mining.

Also met financial functions, providing funds to certain public agencies, provincial governments and even to the private sector for the acquisition of capital goods.

The major purchases were recorded in the areas of metallurgy, building materials, machinery and textiles, standing out as sellers United States and Great Britain, while trade with the Soviet Union reported a significant increase since 1953.

After World War II, agricultural prices declined due to Europe’s economic recovery, reducing IAPI’s main revenue source.