The Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment (Abimaq) indicates that, in the past three years, the country imported more than $ 141 billion on machines , parts and boats. The data concerning the imports benefiting from the special tax regime (Repetro) are the Internal Revenue Service, and were obtained through the Access to Information Act.

According to the survey, only in 2013, US$ 35 billion was invested in vessels, including support vessels and platforms to market offshore oil and gas. Imports into the executive of Abimaq Jose Velloso, reinforcing criticism that the local content policy is limited in the country.

Appropriation

"The shipyard has appropriated all the benefits, increased the profit margin and not passed on the benefits to the local jail", asks Velloso. Although Petrobras investments in exploration and production have grown over 509% in ten years, the local parts industry and naval supplies saw less than a tenth of that amount, with a high of only 41% in its production. Abimaq The survey is based on the production of its 6,800 member companies between 2003 and 2013.

"The numbers indicate that local content is restricted to weld sheet metal and paint, but the filling of vessels that generates added value is imported. Industry We have only one hull", says Jose Velloso. According to him, the yards would not pass on to other links in the marine industry the benefits such as tax exemptions, loans from BNDES and the Merchant Marine Fund, among others. "For every job that creates the yard, we could create another ten".