São Paulo – Brazilian mechanical capital goods exports reached US$ 1.335 billion last December, an increase by 30% in relation to the previous month and by 38% in relation to December 2012, according to information released this Wednesday (29) by the Brazilian Machinery and Equipment Industries Association (Abimaq).<\/p>\n
According to the entity, the result was surprising, leading to an increase to 35% in the exports share of the sector’s revenue, a result above the historic average.<\/p>\n
In the year’s accumulated total, however, shipments added up to US$ 12.475 billion, a 7% decline in relation to 2012. The main markets were other countries in Latin America, United States and Europe. <\/p>\n
Imports, in turn, reached US$ 2.712 billion in December, an increase by 2% in relation to November, and by 9.3% in relation to December 2012. Brazil’s main suppliers are the United States, China, Germany and Italy.<\/p>\n
Throughout 2013, imports added up to US$ 32.617 billion, an increase by 7% in relation to 2012. The sector’s trade balance registered a record breaking US$ 20.143 billion deficit, 18% higher than in 2012.<\/p>\n
Revenues<\/strong><\/p>\n Revenues of the Brazilian machinery and equipments sector in December 2013 totaled R$ 5.555 billion (US$ 2.28 billion, in current exchange rates), representing a decrease by 9.5% in relation to November, and by 11.6% in comparison to December 2012.<\/p>\n During the year, the sector’s gross revenue reached R$ 79.079 billion (US$ 32.49 billion), a 5.7% decrease in relation to 2012.<\/p>\n According to Abimaq, sales improved during the first semester of 2013, after which came a period of stability followed by “strong decline” at the end of the year.<\/p>\n *Translated by Silvia Lindsey<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In December, however, capital goods exports showed a strong increase, which was considered surprising by the sector association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-47054","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"In December, however, capital goods exports showed a strong increase, which was considered surprising by the sector association.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}