Uma análise do setor de bens de capital no Brasil no período recente

Abstract

The goods sector is considered strategic to the macroeconomic performance of any country in the world, as said by De Negri and Cavalcanti (2012) and Vermulm (1995). The present study analyzes the Brazilian trade performance of this sector, through a brief background of the Brazilian industrialization process, in which the limitations and diversification of the national production structure were not completely overcome, especially related to the Department I or sector base, as stated by authors like Furtado (1964, 1970) and Tavares (1972). With the research advancement, in chapter II patterns of the Brazilian imports and exports for the period from 1995 to 2013 will be analyzed, based on information obtained in the UN database. [1] These commercial data will be classified considering two different methodologies: the correspondence between the BEC Broad Economic Categories and production stages developed by Lemoine and Unal-Kesenci (2002), and the Lall\'s classification (2000), which follows the SITC Standard International Trade Classification revision 2, and classifies goods according to technological intensity used in production. This approach will intend to analyze the performance of international trade in the capital goods sector, which focus on medium and high technology sectors. To Lall\'s classification (2000), and to the methodology of Lemoine and Unal-Kesenci (2002), the correspondent sector receives the name of capital goods sector . Ultimately, in chapter III, the performance of Brazilian trade with its major partners, like Argentina, China and USA, is observed, focused on the capital goods sector. It will be calculated some commercial indicators, such as trade specialization index, VCR Revealed Comparative Advantage , the intra-industry trade index and the trade intensity. These indicators will provide an understanding of international trade behavior of the Brazilian capital goods sector with its main trading partners.