The Government of Javier Milei announced this Thursday that the exports of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) reached the highest value recorded since 2013 during the first seven months of the year, with a 26% growth compared to the same period in 2025.
The data was released by the Minister of Economy, Luis “Toto” Caputo, through his X account, based on information from the Subsecretariat of Small and Medium Enterprises. According to the presented data, SMEs accumulated exports of USD 6.446 billion between January and July, marking a significant increase compared to the previous year.
Caputo highlighted the result by stating that the external sales of SMEs thus reached their highest level in the last 13 years. The performance also occurred alongside a rise in the number of companies participating in exports.
Luis Caputo
According to the information released by the Ministry of Economy, the number of exporting companies grew by 4% compared to last year and increased by 6.6% compared to 2023.
Thus, the growth of external sales was accompanied by a greater number of firms that placed their products in international markets.
Strong growth by company size
The increase in exports was recorded across different segments of SMEs, although microenterprises showed the highest growth during the analyzed period.
Microenterprise exports increased by 31.4% during the first seven months of the year. Meanwhile, small enterprises raised their external sales by 30.1%, while medium enterprises recorded a rise of 22.9%.
The data thus shows growth in exports across all three segments considered within the universe of SMEs, with increases exceeding 20% in both small and medium enterprises.
Javier Milei and Luis Caputo
Manufactures and primary products
By major categories, the highest growth corresponded to Agricultural Origin Manufactures (MOA), whose exports increased by 35.2% in the first seven months of the year.
Advances were also recorded in Industrial Origin Manufactures (MOI), which had a growth of 27.1%. Meanwhile, exports of Primary Products increased by 23.5% in the same period.
The growth extended to various chapters of SME external sales. Among the products that recorded the largest increases, the category of prepared animal feed stood out first, with an increase of 327.8%.
Exports of inorganic chemical products also saw strong increases, growing by 118.1%, and starch or sago-based products, with a rise of 105.5%.
Significant increases were also observed in other categories. Exports of dairy products, eggs, and honey rose by 56.4%, while those of vegetables and other tubers grew by 40.3%. Finally, the chapter corresponding to salt, gypsum, lime, and cement recorded an expansion of 38.4%
