The expectations for the non-Tax Dayjournal in November and December are very positive between the businessman, after October28th where sales were around 9.8 billion pesos. Measures like the annual bonification to the public sector employees may incentivize the sales in these days.

In regards of the manufactre industry, the real production in september increased 15.5%, sales increased 14.2% and the occupied staff increased in 6.1%. Beverages elaboration industry presented an anual increase of 11.9%

On the other hand, the starch and its derivatives presented a decrease of 0.2%. In cities like Bogotá and Antioquia the increase was of 22.2 and 19.1%. It’s worrying that the occupied staff is less in comparision with September 2019 when there was no pandemic. The most affected sector is education where the decrease is 7.7%

In regards of the level of confidence within the businessman for October 2021, it was in 63.7%