With a null (0.0%) change of national industrial activity from April to May 2016, in the seasonally adjusted series, eight of the 14 areas surveyed recorded negative rates. The most significant decreases took place in Paraná (-3.5%), Goiás (-2.3%), Pará (-1.9%) and São Paulo (-1.6%).

With these results, Paraná recorded its second decrease in a row, with cumulative reduction of 4.3%; Goiás made up for the 1.5% increase of last month; Pará reached a cumulative loss of 6.4% relative to the last three months and São Paulo returned part of the 3.6% increment it hand in the months of March and April. Pernambuco (-1.1%), Minas Gerais (-0.9%), Bahia (-0.3%) and Rio de Janeiro (-0.1%) are also in the group of áreas with negative indexes.

Amazonas (16.2%) reached its highest positive result in the month and eliminated the 12.5% decrease of the previous month. The other positive rates came from Rio Grande do Sul (4.4%), Espírito Santo (3.8%), Northeast Region (1.6%), Ceará (1.4%) and Santa Catarina (0.1%).

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Still concerning the seasonally-adjusted series, the evolution of the quarterly moving average index for the overall industry pointed to an increase of 0.6% in the quarter ended in May 2016 compared with the level reached in the previous month, interrupting the downward trend which started in October 2014. In regional terms, ten places recorded negative rates, highlighted by the steepest declines reported in Amazonas (6.7%), Pernambuco (3.9%) Northeast Region (2.3%), Bahia (1.4%), Rio de Janeiro (0.8%), Minas Gerais (0.7%) and São Paulo (0.7%). Pará (-2.2%) and Goiás (-1.1%) registered the main advances in May 2016.

In relation to May 2015, industry decreased in 12 out of the 15 areas surveyed

In comparison with the same month in the previous year, the industrial sector fell 7.8% in May 2016, recording negative figures in 12 out of the 15 areas surveyed. In May 2016 (21 days), there was one working day more than in the same month last year (20). In this month, the steepest decline was recorded in Espírito Santo (-18.9%) and Paraná (-11.0%), due to the reduced manufacture in the mining and quarrying sectors (pelletized iron ore), in the former place; and coke, petroleum products and biofuels (fuel oil, diesel fuel, ethyl alcohol and motor gasoline), in the latter.

Goiás (-8.5%) also recorded significantly negative figures compared with the national average (-7.8%), besides Rio de Janeiro (-7.6%), Minas Gerais (-7.2%), Amazonas (-6.3%), Santa Catarina (-6.2%), São Paulo (-5.8%), Pernambuco (-3.8%), Rio Grande do Sul (-3.6%), Bahia (-2.9%) and Ceará (-2.3%).

Mato Grosso (14.6%) and Pará (7.8%) registered the most intense advances in May 2016, influenced by the positive behaviour coming from the sector of food products (fresh and cooled beef, crude soybean oil and cake, bagasse, bran and other reside of soybean oil extraction) and coke, petroleum products and biofuels (ethyl alcohol), in the former place; and minning and quarrying industries (raw iron ore), in the latter. The Northeast Region had a slight increase of 0.3% and completed the group of areas with positive rates in May.

In the cumulative of the year, industry declined in 12 out of the 15 areas

In the cumulative indicator in the January-May 2016 period, against the same period last year, the reduction of overall production reached 12 out of the 15 areas surveyed, three of them with declines below the national average (-9.8%): Espírito Santo (-21.6%), Amazonas (-18,8%) and Pernambuco (-18.7%).

São Paulo (-9.8%), Rio de Janeiro (-9.5%), Minas Gerais (-9.4%), Paraná (-8.9%), Goiás (-8.1%), Santa Catarina (-7.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (-6.2%), Ceará (-5.8%) and Northeast Region (-3.2%) were the other places that registered negative figures in the cumulative index in the year. In those areas, the lower dynamism was influenced by the reduced manufacture in the sector of capital goods (especially those related to transportation equipment – tractor trucks for trailers and semi-trailers, trucks and vehicles for transportation of goods; intermediate goods (car pieces, non-metallic mineral products, textiles, steel products, fabricated metal products, basic petrochemicals, thermoplastic resins and agrochemical products); durable consumer goods (cars, white and brown goods, motorcycles and furniture); and semi and non-durable consumer goods (footwear, textiles, wearing apparel and beverages).

Pará (9.6%), Mato Grosso (7.4%) and Bahia (1.2%) recorded advances in terms of the cumulative index in the year, pinfluenced by the positive behaviour of mining and quarrying industries (raw iron ore), in the first sector; food products (fresh and cooled beef, crude soybean oil and cakes, bran, and other residue of soybean oil extraction), in the second; and coke, petroleum products and biofuels (diesel fuel and motor gasoline) and basic metals (bars, profiles and copper wires and copper alloys), in the third one.

In the cumulative index in 12 months, industrial output decreased in 13 out of the 15 areas

As the overall industry declined 9.5% in May 2016 – the annualized rate – cumulative indicator in the last 12 months – repeat the decline of 9.6% registered in the last March and April, when posted the most intense drop since October 2009 (-10.3%). In regional terms, 13 out of the 15 areas surveyed recorded negative rates in May 2016 and 10 showed lower dynamism against the index of April. The main ganhos de ritmo between April and May were reported in Mato Grosso (from 3.6% to 5.5%), Ceará (from -9.3% to -8.5%), Rio Grande do Sul (from -10.9% to -10.2%), São Paulo (from -12.1% to -11.5%) and Pará (from 4.1% to 4.7%), whereas Espírito Santo (from -8.6% to -11.2%) registered the highest loss between the two periods.

As the overall industry declined 9.5% in May 2016 – the annualized rate – cumulative indicator in the last 12 months – repeated the decline of 9.6% registered last March and April, when it recorded the most intense drop since October 2009 (-10.3%). In regional terms, 13 out of the 15 areas surveyed recorded negative rates in May 2016 and 10 showed lower dynamism against the index of April.

The main increases between April and May were reported in Mato Grosso (from 3.6% to 5.5%), Ceará (from -9.3% to -8.5%), Rio Grande do Sul (from -10.9% to -10.2%), São Paulo (from -12.1% to -11.5%) and Pará (from 4.1% to 4.7%), whereas Espírito Santo (from -8.6% to -11.2%) registered the biggest decline between the two periods.