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Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 18/06/2025
China has become the “world’s factory” but, at an accelerated pace, it is also establishing itself as an undeniable hub of innovation, building high-tech industrial capabilities.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 13/06/2025
In the first quarter of 2025, the groups with higher technological intensity experienced the most significant slowdown, although they maintained a performance superior to the overall manufacturing industry.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 06/06/2025
While speculation abounds regarding the winners and losers of the U.S. tariff hikes, the latest scenarios from multilateral organizations indicate a weakening of global GDP and international trade.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 23/05/2025
In the first quarter of 2025, the trade balance deficit for manufacturing goods increased again, driven by the underperformance of lower-technology-intensity segments.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 13/05/2025
In the first quarter of 2025, Brazilian industry grew at a slower pace than in the second half of 2024, with capital goods and intermediate goods among the sectors experiencing the most significant loss of dynamism.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 09/05/2025
In 2024, due to robust and widespread growth across various industry branches, industrial employment expanded, outpacing the increase in the overall private sector employment.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 30/04/2025
In February 2025, Brazilian industry recorded five consecutive months without growth, a situation aggravated by rising global uncertainties.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 28/04/2025
In 2024, Brazil imported more and from a greater number of international partners than it managed to expand and diversify its manufacturing exports, the opposite of what it needs to do to address the current changes in global trade.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 17/04/2025
In the fourth quarter of 2024, while Brazilian industry slowed down, global industrial dynamism gained strength despite rising tensions and uncertainties.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 07/04/2025
Brazil has improved its position in the global manufacturing ranking, but without increasing its share of the sector’s total value added.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 28/03/2025
Although industrial production remained stagnant in January 2025, few sectors and regional industrial parks recorded declines.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 14/03/2025
In 2004, the manufacturing industry expanded production, with distinct characteristics compared to the past decade, particularly in the distribution of this dynamism across technological intensity categories.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 10/03/2025
Brazil and China export many overlapping products to the US, and Brazilian sales could benefit from tariffs on Chinese exports.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 28/02/2025
In 2024, all major economic sectors expanded at a higher pace than in 2023, but a slowdown is already on the horizon, as a result of the Selic increase.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 24/02/2025
In the last quarter of 2024, although default continued to fall, average interest rates increased, in the wake of the Selic rise. Credit dynamism was still resilient.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 12/02/2025
In 2024, although exports of high and medium-low technology industrial goods increased, only the latter group’s trade result improved.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 10/02/2025
In 2024, the Brazilian industry not only grew, but also showed relatively robust and widespread dynamism across its branches; despite this, there were negative signs at the end of the year, reflecting the impact of rising interest rates, among other factors.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 24/01/2025
In Q3'24, the performance of Brazilian manufacturing not only, once again, was higher than the world's, but its advantage increased.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 17/01/2025
In Nov'24, the industry fell again and negative rates became more widespread across sectors and regions, driven by adverse weather events, uncertainties and increasingly high interest rates.
Letter IEDI
Publicado em: 10/01/2025
IMF study shows that deficiencies in transport infrastructure and customs clearance are among the main obstacles to the expansion of international trade in Latin America and the Caribbean.
