Minister Paulo Guedes (Economy) had lunch this Friday (3) with representatives of Coalizão Brasil, the group representing 12 industrial sectors with which he meets periodically, and heard from them that there is an investment forecast of R$ 340 billion to be carried out between 2023 and 2026 by all the segments, according to Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, who coordinates the entity.
In addition to informing the minister about the possibility of investment for the period that covers the next term, however, representatives of the sectors spoke of trade liberalization and lamented the Brazil cost.
“We had an agreement with the minister that the reduction of the import tax would have to be done in line with the reduction of the Brazil cost. No sector is against trade opening. What we are against is that this competition be carried out asymmetrical way. We told the minister that this last round of reduction was carried out without observing the agreement”, he says.
According to Lopes, Guedes replied that the disturbance caused by the movement to reduce the import tax was carried out in the emergency to try to curb inflation.
Entities such as Abit (textiles), ABCP (cement), Abiplast (plastics), Anfavea (vehicles) and Interfarma (pharmaceuticals) participated in the meeting.
Joana Cunha with Paulo Ricardo Martins and Gilmara Santos
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