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NET SALES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2019
NET SALES |
Schedule of net sales revenues |
|  | 2019 |  | 2018 |  | 2017
Gross sales |  | 44,558,309 |  | 51,861,423 |  | 42,156,553
Taxes on sales |  | (3,819,812) |  | (3,793,516) |  | (2,956,896)
Discounts |  | (1,094,487) |  | (1,908,429) |  | (2,282,038)
Net sales |  | 39,644,010 |  | 46,159,478 |  | 36,917,619

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