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NET SALES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
NET SALES |
Schedule of net sales revenues |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017 |  | 2016
Gross sales |  | 51,861,423 |  | 42,156,553 |  | 42,935,022
Taxes on sales |  | (3,793,516) |  | (2,956,896) |  | (2,765,957)
Discounts |  | (1,908,429) |  | (2,282,038) |  | (2,517,398)
Net sales |  | 46,159,478 |  | 36,917,619 |  | 37,651,667

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