Análisis de los subsidios a los combustibles focalizados en el sector industrial y su impacto en las Pymes, panificadoras, de la ciudad de Quito en el período 2015-2016

Abstract

Removing subsidies is considered an optimal economic measure, but very difficult to carry out. International experience highlights the importance of eliminating subsidies in a pragmatic way; should be phased out and mitigation measures targeted at the most vulnerable and the groups most affected by these actions. Executive Decree 799 focused on fuel subsidies (diesel and gasoline) for the industrial sector; only natural or legal persons with the necessary operational capacity and consuming volumes equal to or less than 2.000 gallons per month, per product and establishment. Based on this measure, it is important to establish their impact on SMEs that are in the bakery sector and that consume diesel, gasoline or LPG without subsidy, for their production processes. It should be done through a cost analysis, which allows us to identify if this is a variable has a significant influence over the total costs and its impact on this sector. It should analyze the potential benefits that these measures would have on industries creditors of the fuel subsidize that consume a volume equal to or less than 2.000 gallons per month. In case that this measure significantly affects the production costs, it is necessary to identify and analyze alternatives that allow them to replace non-subsidized fuels with alternative energies with lower production costs.