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13 2.11 to 2.16.2019 its exports by 15% in 2019 comparing to 2018, thanks to the first full year of Kicks in that same Argentina and the start of shipments to Uruguay and Chile, which should happen until the last quarter this year- these markets already receive March and Versa, both Brazilians, which are also forecasting orders increase. Mexico – The president Silva expressed some concern about the possibility of a free trade between Brazil and Mexico starting next month. For him, “if Brazil wants to grow, it has to open its market, but that must happen gradually, until it achieves equal conditions for competitiveness”. And that’s not what happens today, he says: “Not only for Nissan, but for any automaker, producing in Mexico is cheaper than in Brazil, with regard to the production volume, which is much higher there. This way, a market opening now can cause imbalance”.   He recognized that the quota agreement in the bilateral trade, with a gradual increase from year to year to free trade, aimed precisely at this quest for common competitiveness, but recalled that “in the middle of the way we had a crisis and lost 1 million units of productive volume, which changed all the conditions”. Nissan today imports the Sentra model fromMexico and does not send anything there. Silva affirmed that Nissan is working on an “interesting project to maximize the potentialities of the three plants in Latin America” -- Brazil, Argentina and Mexico: “Our objective is to promote the solid and orchestrated integration of these three units.” That action would involve the production of models in Brazil to be sent to Mexico and Argentina as well as in Mexico to supply Brazil and Argentina and, naturally, also in Argentina to serve Mexico and Brazil. And, in this planning, Nissan is counting on the “free trade or something very close to that condition”.