The table of minimum prices for road freight will cause a loss of US $ 5 billion for the Brazilian rural producer, mainly soybean and corn, in 2019, due to the cascade effect of the increase in logistics costs, according to calculations of the National Exporters Association (Anec), presented by the director general of the entity, Sérgio Mendes, in event of closure of year of the association, held last week in São Paulo (SP).
According to Mendes, the tabulation has already generated an increase of $ 2.4 billion in logistics costs for the exporter this year, and the one who will suffer the most in 2019 will be the producer.
To illustrate his reasoning, the manager showed, for example, that an average freight from Rio Verde (GO) to the port of Santos (SP) rose from RS 170 a ton in the pre-table scenario to R $ 235 after the tabulation. “This is an increase that the productive sector has no condition to assume, even historically because logistics is our weak point of competitiveness.”
According to Mendes, in addition to a letter sent to the president-elect, Jair Bolsonaro, requesting the repeal of the table, Anec will talk with the future Minister of Agriculture, Tereza Cristina, at the next meeting of the Superior Council of Agribusiness of Fiesp, scheduled for second (03) to deal with the matter.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.