Flex-fuel vehicles account for 89.6% of car sales
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Sales of cars and light commercial vehicles flex-fuel model (flex) totaled 265,889 units in September, with a participation of 89.6% of the category. The result indicates an improvement on the performance of September 2008, when the share was 87.1%, with 221,424 units. The data was released Wednesday by the National Association of Automobile Manufacturers (Anfavea).
In the year, 1,961,758 vehicles were sold flex, the equivalent of 88.7% of sales of cars and light commercial vehicles in the period. Between January and September 2008, the share of flex-fuel vehicles in sales was 87.2%.
Agricultural machinery
Domestic sales of agricultural machinery in 5446 amounted to wholesale units in September 2009, representing an increase of 7.9% from August and down 0.4% compared to September last year. The data was released today by Anfavea. Production in September rose 7.1% from August but down 23.3% compared to September 2008 to 6097 units. Between January and September, 45,797 were produced agricultural machinery, automotive, number 27.8% lower than the same period of 2008. Exports in value, in turn, totaled U.S.$ 130,992 million in September, a figure 52.3% higher than that charged in August and 50% lower than September 2008. In the year, there was a low of 62.1% in shipments of such equipment.
Jobs
The automotive sector ended the month of September employing 121,240 people, representing an increase of 0.6% compared to August. But indicates down 7.6% compared to same month last year. In percentage terms, the largest reduction in the number of employees remained with the segment of agricultural machinery, the labor force fell by 20.5% compared with September 2008, from 18,355 to 14,590 jobs.
On the same basis of comparison, the area of vehicles showed a decline of 5.5% in the number of employees, leaving 112,804 to 106,650 employees in September. When the numbers are faced with the position in August, we see that the staff of the segment of agricultural machinery rose 1.5% and the case was advancing 0.4%
Exports
Anfavea also said that the sector's exports totaled U.S.$ 711,075 million in September, an increase of 0.5% from August and down 44.6% compared with September 2008. 43,084 units were exported to other countries - low of 6% compared to the previous month and low of 30.6% over September 2008. From January to September, foreign sales fell 48.3% versus the same period of 2008 to U.S.$ 5.566 billion. This range were exported 326,858 units, which means a low of 42.8% compared to the period between January and September 2008.
Source: State Agency
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