São Paulo – Brazilian vehicle exports reached US$ 16.6 billion last year, an increase by 13.5% in relation to 2012, according to information released this Tuesday (07) by the National Association of Vehicle Manufacturers (Anfavea) of Brazil. This record figure includes cars, light commercial vehicles, busses, trucks and motorized agricultural machinery, such as tractors and harvesters.
The number of units shipped abroad reached 563,268 in 2013, an increase by 26.5% in relation to the previous year, according to Anfavea. The figures regard the exports of assembled vehicles. In the case of disassembled vehicles (CKD), Brazil exported 27.263 units, an increase by 1.6% in comparison to the year before.
For 2014, Anfavea expects an increase in exports by 2.6%, to US$ 17 billion.
Vehicle production in Brazil was also a record in 2013. The country produced 3.74 million cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and busses last year, an increase by 9.9% in relation to 2012. The data does not include agricultural machinery.
Sales in the internal market, however, dropped. There were 3.77 million new vehicles plated in Brazil in 2013, a decrease by 0.9% in relation to the previous year.
For 2014, the association calculates an increase by 0.7% in production and 1.1% in sales in the internal market.
*Translated by Silvia Lindsey
