Electronics industry revenues should grow 2% this year

The electronics industry should earn R $ 159.4 billion this year. The result will be 2% above registered in 2013, according to estimates released today by the Brazilian electrical and electronics industry (Abinee), in São Paulo. According to the entity, exports are expected to fall 9 percent and imports 4%. The fall in production from January to September stood at 2.1% and should close the year at 2 percent.
With respect to the area of industrial automation, the data indicate growth of 4%, however the industrial equipment decreased 1%. According to Abinee, the segments most affected by lack of investments were telecommunications ( -5), generation and transmission of electric energy ( -13%) and the electrical industry and installation ( -3).
In assessing the entity, the Outlook for 2015 are of higher revenues, with a growth of 2% compared to this year. Imports must be the same as registered in 2014, reaching R $ 41.9 billion, and exports should drop 1%.
The President of Abinee, Humberto Barbato joked saying you would like the year 2014 end soon due to the figures presented. "My statement makes sense because unfortunately had a bad activity level, with different segments having major difficulties and considerable falls". According to him, even with some incentives and measures that facilitated survival of the sector, the problems have prevailed.
He cited as key measures to encourage the sector to exemption of payroll, the renewal of the law of information technology and the law of right (11,196/05 Law granting tax breaks to companies that invest in research and development of technological innovation). "The exemption was welcome, but make it clear that it's not a huge exemption. There was a reduction to a thread that was extremely burdened and employs a major segment. This was a factor that inhibited the signings. The measure encourages the jobs ". Barbato assessed that such measures should be accompanied by actions of exchange-rate policy, because the coin valued "kills" the exemption.
The data also indicate that the electronics industry's investments should fall 5 percent this year, passing the $ 4.2 billion in 2013, for $ 4 billion in 2014. The sector must register 3 reduction still thousand jobs, with the total number of employees falling 178 thousand to 175 thousand.