Brasília – The presence of imported products on the Brazilian market was record last year, according to a study disclosed by the National Confederation of Industries on Monday (4). According to CNI, in 2012, the coefficient of participation of imported goods in domestic consumption was 21.6%. The percentage is the highest since the figures started being recorded, in 1996. According to the organisation, the result reflects a loss of competitiveness of domestic industrial products as against imports.
Imports have grown more than in the information technology, electronic product and optic groups (growth of 6.4 percentage points over 2011), machinery and electric material (4.8 percentage points), pharmaceutical products (4.6 percentage points) and machinery and equipment (also 4.6 percentage points).
Participation of inputs acquired by industry, which shows the volume of imported products used in domestic production, was 23.2%, with growth of 1.9 percentage point in comparison with the 2011 result.
*Translated by Mark Ament
