The new table of minimum prices of freight by road,published on Wednesday (05) , will bring even more damage and legal insecurity to the agricultural sector and society, according to the Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil (CNA). In the table published by the National Agency for Land Transport (ANTT), CNA identified increases of 3.15% to 6.82% for freight of general, bulk and refrigerated cargoes.
The CNA will file a new request with the Federal Supreme Court (STF) to suspend the readjustments and ask for agility in the judgment of the actions that contest the measure. According to Elisangela Pereira Lopes, technical adviser to the National Commission of Infrastructure and Logistics of the CNA, at this rate of increase, in a year the tabulation can increase up to 30%.
“No inflation index would have such a high readjustment. And the producer does not have his products readjusted that way. Agro products, when exported, have their prices stipulated by the international stock exchanges. It is a very great legal insecurity for the sector, “he explains.
For a route from Sorriso (MT) to the Port of Santos (SP), the freight with the first table of the government, of May 30, increased 51%. As of today’s readjustment, the accumulated high is 57% when there is the return freight, ie the driver returns with the truck full.
Without the return freight, when the truck returns empty, the increase goes from 193% in the first table to an accumulated increase of 204% with the new prices “It is becoming impractical to transport agricultural products. For corn, transport costs already account for 70% of the value of the product on the international market. “
The government readjusted the minimum freight prices under the claim of rising diesel prices at refineries. However, the CNA disputes this argument. “And when the diesel falls, will ANTT also have the same agility to readjust the table for less?” Asks Elisângela.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.