Agribusiness leaders gathered this morning (28) in São Paulo criticized the minimum price tablefor road freight, published in the Official Gazette of the Union by means of a Provisional Measure.
For the president of the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove), André Nassar, the freight table generates uncertainty, because it is intervention in something that is free market.
According to Nassar, the tabulation, in practice, gives a new cost to the productive sector. The director of the National Association of Cereal Exporters (Anec), Sérgio Mendes, said that the freight tariff increases the logistic disadvantage of Brazilian agriculture compared to the US, which is now between 40 and 50 dollars more.
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In addition to Abiove and Anec, the Brazilian Rural Society (SRB), the Brazilian Agribusiness Association (Abag), the National Association of Citrus Juice Exporters (CitrusBR), the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) National Animal Feed Industry (Sindirações), Council of Coffee Exporters of Brazil (Cecafé), among others.