A Zona Franca de Manaus tem impacto na eficiência da indústria?

The report finds that despite significant tax exemptions, the industrial sector in the Zona Franca de Manaus (ZFM) shows no increase in productive or energy efficiency compared to the Brazilian national average. Analysis of the most representative sectors, including two-wheelers and audio/video, confirms that these incentives have not translated into comparative efficiency advantages.

• Analysis of industrial data from 2003 to 2015 shows that productive and energy efficiency levels in the ZFM are similar to those of Brazil as a whole and have remained stable over time.
• Tax expenditures for the ZFM, Western Amazon, and Free Trade Areas more than doubled between 2010 and 2015, reaching R$ 27.8 billion in 2015, with the ZFM industrial sector alone receiving over R$ 6 billion that year.
• In 2015, the two-wheeler and audio/video sectors were the primary beneficiaries of estimated tax waivers in the ZFM, accounting for 27% and 16% of the total respectively.
• The two-wheeler sector in the ZFM is highly concentrated, employing 56% of all personnel in that sector across Brazil, yet it shows no improvement in efficiency levels over the years compared to the national average.
• The audio and video sector in the ZFM, which contains 24% of the sector's local units in Brazil, does not possess comparative advantages in productive or energy efficiency.
• The study concludes that the industrial policy of providing tax benefits to the ZFM has not contributed to increasing the country's overall productivity or energy efficiency.

APA

Assunção, J., Holz, R., & Schutze, A. (2020). A Zona Franca de Manaus tem impacto na eficiência da indústria? Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ZFM-PT-1.pdf

Chicago

Assunção, Juliano, Rhayana Holz, and Amanda Schutze. A Zona Franca de Manaus tem impacto na eficiência da indústria? Climate Policy Initiative, 2020. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ZFM-PT-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{assuno2020zona, author = {Assunção, Juliano and Holz, Rhayana and Schutze, Amanda}, title = {{A Zona Franca de Manaus tem impacto na eficiência da indústria?}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2020}, month = mar, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ZFM-PT-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }