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Coutinho from BNDES preaches for
“trade remedies measures”. During a lecture at the Federation of Industries of São Paulo (FIESP), he said that we can not throw in the towel and accept the depletion of productive, accepting that an explosion of imported components empty inside, especially in the capital goods industry, machinery industry, our industrial chains. We must protect the value. Coutinho said that "imports are showing signs of growing explosively with evidence of unfair competition." He cited as example some segments equipment manufacturers referring in particular to enter the country for industrial components. "This requires typical trade remedies measures. Now the initiative must come from the private sector. " According to the president of BNDES, the companies damaged by unfair competition should trigger defense mechanisms provided by the antidumping World Trade Organization (WTO). 'We can not be naive. We must protect minimally competitive (business) and employment conditions in Brazil ', said after attending an event on productive innovation. He said Brazil can not run the risk of record trade deficits 'fools' of some productive sectors, not to mention what these sectors. According to the director of Fiesp, Roberto Giannetti da Fonseca, the trade industry of the country must present a deficit of U.S. $ 59 billion in 2010, rising to U.S. $ 80 billion next year. Coutinho said that Brazil still has "many battles ahead" to improve the competitiveness of the industrial sector. 'We still do much to improve the quality of the infrastructure of the country, to reduce the interest rate to prevent currency appreciation detrimental to the interests of job creation and export capacity in Brazil. " He said Brazil has many 'fronts advances to win,' although you can not forget that without the competitiveness of the business sector, domestic companies can not expand its presence in international markets and resist the aggressive entry of imported products. 'It takes a great deal of innovation'. Coutinho was speaking before the launch of the Innovation Center Paulista, in partnership with SESI, SENAI-SP, SP-Sebrae and Development Office of the State. The core objective is to increase the competitiveness of Brazilian products and educate 30 000 companies to invest in research, development and innovation. Source: Estadão Journal
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