The textiles sector in Brazil is getting prepared to
invest R$ 12, 3 billion up to year 2008, to modernize and expand its
production capacity. These investments also represent an expansion of
cotton plantation areas, in order to increase 34% its physical capacity,
within the production chain, until the year 2005.
The target is to grow external sales and reach 1% of
world’s textile exportation in five years and then go up to 1. 4% in
eight years, generating commercial surplus of US$ 3 billion and US$ 3, 7
billion, respectively.
This
sector comprises 30 thousand companies in the country and it has
invested, in the last decade, US$ 7 billion with plant modernization,
development, technology acquisitions and with personnel training. The
objective is to be prepared for exporting value added products and to
respond promptly and adequately to the demands of the globalized world.
The Brazilian textile sector
employs, at present, 1, 4 million people, including the jobs that are
generated with the expansion of the cultivated areas. The objectives, of
textile industrialists, are to increase the number of working positions
to 470 thousand, in the productive chain, until the end of year 2005,
increase exportation to US$ 4, 3 billion in 2005 and to US$ 5, 6 billion
in 2008, generating commercial surplus of US$ 3 billion and US$3, 7
billion in the years of 2005 and 2008 respectively.
For
this year’s first semester an accumulated surplus of US$ 213, 2
million was registered in our balance of trade,an increase of almost 30% when compared to the first semester of
2004.
Textiles
and clothing exportation show a decrease, in June this year, in relation
to the same month in 2004. According to data from ABIT – Associação
Brasileira da Indústria Têxtil e de Confecção (Brazilian Association
of Textiles and Clothing Industries), the sector exported this month of
June, US$ 144 million, a 6% loss when compared to the US$ 153, 1 million
exported in June last year. Commercial balance results also presented
significant losses: dropping to 31. 3%, and a value of US$ 22, 6 million,
for the same period.
The reason for this fall in
exportation in the month of June already is a reflex of the increase of
Real’s monetary value in relation to the Dollar, having gone up 28% in
the last 12 months and 10% in the first six months of this year.
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COMMERCIAL BALANCE FOR TEXTILE AN CLOTHING - JUNE - US$ FOB |
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Exportation June
2004
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Exportation June
2004 |
VARIATION % |
 Exportation |
153,1 |
144,0 |
-5.94 |
| Importation |
120,2 |
121,4 |
1 |
| Balance |
32,9 |
22,6 |
-31.3 |
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| Source: MDIC/SECEX |
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