It import Coffee for export brings news stimulus to the sector

Neither credit nor renegociação of debts. What the sector of coffee more celebrated in the last package for the agriculture thrown by the government was the enlargement of the regime of "drawback". The mechanism, estimate specialists, will be able to elevate the Brazilian aggressiveness and raise the country of bigger world producer to main platform of exportation of the product.

The mechanism permits the importing of exempt products of taxes when the final result will go destined to the exportation. Today, cotton, shrimp, chicken, fruits and meat suína enjoy that possibility and, in the agricultural package, the government is going to extend her to all of the products of the agribusiness.

"That it is the big pace. The "drawback" is going to permit that Brazil becomes to big world exporting platform. Who does that today are the countries consumers, as the Italy", says Mauro Malta, director of the Brazilian Association of the Industry of Soluble Coffee. Cautious by the sharp crisis of 2000 to 2003, the Brazilian sector want, in a first moment, avoid the loss of market in the outside. If it occur a break of national harvest, they would be able to import coffee of the Colombia, by example, and resell for honor contracts.

To Federacafé (Federación National of Cafeteros of Colombia) already estimates to sell 600 thousand annual sacks of the product for Brazil, but to Abics says that is early. It is near, however, the day in that the national industry will appeal to grains of the outside. "Today, 90% of the world market is coffees mixtures deed of different countries", analyzes Carlos Bernardo, of the CIC (Center of Intelligence of the Coffee).

At present, Brazil does not compete with others countries consumers, as Italy and Germany, because the cost for bring the grain of another country and mix-him here with the national coffee increases the final price. The "drawback" opens the chance of new factories will be installed in the country of eye in the obtaining of mixtures, or "blends", as healthy calls.

Polemics in the sector To last year, not even the diverse connected branches to the coffee were understood about the "drawback". Who dealt with soluble coffee will want, but the producers were against -until will sit down to the same table and will agree to rules fitossanitárias and commercial safeguards for protect the national harvest in cases of crisis. According to the Department of the Agriculture, the project of stretch of the "drawback" should be directed to the Camex (Chamber of Exterior Commerce) in the near weeks.

"It is more than in time of that mechanism be possible. The important one is going to insert Brazil in the world market. Nowadays, do not we export more coffee because do not we do "drawback". That is going to increase to competitiveness", Nathan Herszkowicz said, director of the ABIC (Brazilian Association of Industry of the Coffee).

Second the professor of the USP Sylvia you Leave, the participation of the Brazilian coffee in the increased foreign market in we will have absolute, but falls relatively. Or be, sells itself more coffee, but the Brazilian percentage in the ranking world comes diminishing since 1997. But still it would have time of turn to party. "We have conditions of compete with the cost, lack better results by we will not know well others markets", explains you Leave.

For the time being, what do I govern comes making an effort for obtain is the use of some countries of the America Central and of the Caribbean as platform of exportation of the product for the U.S.A.

Fonte: Folha de S. Paulo