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WHY THE FEDERATION OF EMPLOYERS OF UKRAINE WILL CONSISTENTLY AND UNCOMPROMISINGLY REQUIRE MANDATORY LOCALIZATION IN PUBLIC PROCUREMENT!
17.06.2020
Ruslan Illyichov, Executive Director of the Federation of Employers of Ukraine
✅Because public finances are our taxes, and we have the right to tell the authorities at all levels how to spend hundreds of billions of hryvnias a year.
✅Because localization of production is jobs, new productions and technologies, high added value.
✅Because that's what all "smart" countries do
from Kazakhstan to the United States and Algeria. No free market regulates
anything! We have analyzed public procurement since 2015. No foreign
manufacturer, which had imported us its
product under contracts of more than 100
million hryvnias did not localize a single percent of production in Ukraine,
did not make any screws or nuts.
Don't you believe ????
A contract for 1 billion dollars with GE locomotives. Where is the real localization, which, by the
way, was prescribed in the contract? Who will be personally responsible for its
absence? Who will compensate Ukraine
lost jobs?
✅Because localization
is almost the only way and opportunity for Ukraine to have real cooperation
with world producers and inclusion in production chains. There is simply no
other way - "industrial dialogue" and investments are born in
production, not in slides of pseudo-presentations "sorosyat".
✅Today, in Ukrainian
trams, trolleybuses, high-speed and diesel trains, fire engines and municipal
vehicles, ambulances, turbines and compressors
for 20 to 70 percent of the world's leading engineering industry
complete set is used.
And they are ready to produce a part of the complete
set in Ukraine under the condition of stable orders. We know this because we
communicate with them in the language of contacts and partnerships! We are a large family of the International
Organization of Employers, where we have partners from 150 countries! We know
better than any experts and "nannies" what Alstom, Siemens, Mazotti
or DEUTZ need to produce in Ukraine.
✅Localization is today
the fastest way to attract investment. No "investment nanny" will
help us. Polish, Romanian or even Belarusian "nannies" are already
working much better and have much more support tools. But when we tell an
investor that the market for 700 locomotives for the next 5 years will be the
one who will create the localization, it will be a much better argument for
investment than "nannies", deregulation and talk about Ukraine's
place in Doing Business.
We tell the Government - do not consider localization
as solely supporting domestic producers. View it as an invitation and incentive
to invest for companies from around the world !!!
Ukrainian companies can and already produce competitive
serial products, having many foreign partners in their localization.
And it is very strange to me when some politicians, experts and "grant eaters" on the air and on the Internet have already started a campaign to discredit the idea of localization, pouring mud on national producers and telling nonsense about "Zaporozhets" car brand and backward non-competitive industries.
We are competitive. And this is very easy to see -
come to "Electron”, "Cherkasy bus” or "Bogdan”
and look at the trams, buses and electric buses they produce. Visit "Kryukiv Carriage Building” Plant with its high-speed trains, diesel
trains and metro. Visit "Pozhmashina” and "Spetsbudmash” - and see the road and
special equipment that they are able to provide all regions of Ukraine. Take a
look at the production capabilities of "Turboatom”, "Zorya Mashproekt” or
"Nikmas”.
All you need is a desire to see our strengths,
competencies and strengths and give domestic producers the opportunity to
maximize their potential.I am sure that together with our friends and
like-minded people - Igor Petrashko, Dmytro Kysylevsky, Roksolana Pidlasa and
hundreds of Ukrainian entrepreneurs will succeed.
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