Auto parts industry negotiates plan to lower costs

The national auto industry expects to close the year with a trade deficit of $ 8.8 billion. The imbalance between exports and imports is pointed to by Sindipeças, which represents the domestic manufacturers, as a serious problem of competitiveness and, therefore, the automakers and systemists have replaced national imported parts, with better prices.
To resolve all the problems involving the sector, negotiates with the Government a strict supervision on the nationalization of vehicles manufactured in the country and a specific programme called Innovation, complementing the already set to innovate.
The Innovate Auto, which is this year until 2017, is a set of rules that the federal Government has determined that the automakers and importers from escaping from the increase in the tax on industrialized products (IPI) in 2011. The goal is that Brazil has more efficient cars, with less emission of pollutants and lower prices.
The release strategy for auto parts sector is to increase the scale and receive incentives to improve production and thus reduce costs.
The most urgent to the entity is the trace mechanism of using national parts, which has been discussed with the National Association of Automotive vehicle manufacturers (Anfavea). For auto parts, is the only way to control the percentage of national content of automotive systems supplied to automakers.
However, such supervision on the domestic content of cars has been delayed, what concerns companies of auto parts. ' The trace was to have begun on May 31. Has passed for July 31, but we hear of Anfavea August 31 ', says President of Sindipeças, Paulo Butori. ' For the automaker is a convenience by not providing account to no one. '
Sought by the G1, the Anfavea confirms that discusses the measure with the Union of manufacturers of auto parts, but says no date to be implemented.
By new rules of Innovation, shall be exempt from the increase in IPI companies that achieve goals such as increased use of local content and energy efficiency — the car manufacturers need to use 60% of parts made in Brazil. According to the Sindipeças, systemists and automakers have been resistant to trace, especially the Asian, which bring many suppliers from outside for their industrial parks in Brazil.
' If a vendor passed a wrong information about the components, the automaker would be assessed in proportion to the size of the company. Have to copy the model of Nafta (North America Free Trade Agreement) ', says Butori, about the need to protect the entire national production of auto parts.
Investments
The companies still alert Sindipeças in Brazil invest, but have low profitability. "Anywhere else in the world, the prices are much lower, because they are more competitive," says Butori.
"While automakers speak investment of $ 22 billion for the next five years, we (auto parts), we are talking about $ 8 billion. We are far short of the need, because we don't have profitability to invest more, "explains the President of the employers ' Union, referring to the national companies that have not been acquired by multinational groups.
Taxes
On the composition of products, price Butori returned to criticize taxes and, especially, the import tax of raw material, which often are higher than the manufactured value added product. "This happens with the steel", exemplifies.
Industry training
The Sindipeças released on Thursday (13) the Corporate education, Sindipeças Institute for the training of professionals, to raise the sustainability and competitiveness of local companies.