Production of soft drinks falls 1.4% in November

Soft drink production in November fell 1.4 percent compared to October, with 1.2 billion liters. Compared to the same month of 2015, the fall is 10.5%.
The information is from the production control system of drinks (SICOBE) with the IRS. In 2016, there was cumulative 6% retraction volume of soft drinks produced in relation to the same 11 months of 2015. The expectation of increased production in December compared to November. With the arrival of the holiday season, as recorded in historical series from 2011 (SICOBE), there is an increase in production in the last month of the year.
The SICOBE is the current instrument of physical control of the production of soda and beer throughout Brazil. Your account monitoring process with counters and photographic record 97% installed in automatic production lines of Brazil. Its implementation promoted the formalization of the sector, contributing to the fight against tax evasion. Today, the data is sent directly from the production lines for the recipe, updated daily and made available to the public on the home page of the Mint.
In October this year, the IRS announced that the use of the SICOBE will cease to be mandatory as from 13 December. The Brazilian Association of manufacturers of soft drinks and non-alcoholic drinks (ABIR) believes that recognition by the Irs of the importance of physical control of this production, will be established some form of physical control as efficient as the SICOBE, in order to avoid the risk of tax evasion and informality.
Production of soft drinks until November 2016-SICOBE/Data Irs (2015 × 2016)