Evolução das exportações, comércio intrasetorial e impactos ambientais dos negócios internacionais de madeireira brasileira

Abstract

Brazil has an amount of natural timber, turned toward to furniture production, houses, boats, blader timber, thin timber and many others manufactured products. Paraná, Santa Catarina e o Pará are the most important states on such timber products. On an international context, Brazilian timber production participation markedly raised tl the last few years. Nowadays, Brazil is the 10TH higgest timber export country in the world. The United States and the European Union are the most important to exported timber from Brazil. The main objective of this research is to annalyze the exportation, the intra-sectorial commerce and the environmental impacts on Brazilian timber on international business and, specifically, estimate the offer and demand equations by Brazilian timber exportation to the United States and the European Union: Identify the main reasons to determine Brazilian timber commerce souces on its main destination markets and check international timber commerce effect on cutting-down index in Brazil. Profitable and essential for Brazilian exportatin, being crutial, this research on formulation of strategies an instruments supporting this activity, in order to keep the profitable advantages of Brazil on timber productive net as well as on the exportation balance. The results show that the Brazilian exported timber to the United States and the EuropeanUnion is a normal activity and its demenda is unstickble on American market and stickble on the European one. About the expensive price adopted on both markets Brazilian timber is expensive and that expensive offer -0,14 on European market and2,63 on the American one. Grubel Lloyd index to US-Brazil timber international commerce reached its lowest index in 2005. explaning almost all compared advantages due to different factors in both coountries and the highest one in 1997. And on Brazil-EU relations the lowest valor was in 1990 when Brazil practicaly only exported timber to EU, resulting on an inter-sector commerce and highest in 1998. The correlation indexes between Brazilian rainforest cutting-down and Brazilian timber exportation were 0,54, 0,33 and 0,31 compared to the world, USA and EU, respetivaly.