Even with a null change (0.0%) of the national industrial activity, between May and June 2017, seasonally adjusted series, nine of the 14 places surveyed registered output expansion, with a highlight to Rio de Janeiro (3.1%), Amazonas (2.8%), Pernambuco (1.7%) and Minas Gerais (1.6%).  With thee results, the first place offset part of the 3.6% fall accumulated in the months of April and May; the second regained growth after falling 3.4% in the previous month; the third one recorded the fourth positive rate in a row, recording in this period gains of 4.8%; the last one eliminated the 0.2% drop seen last May. São Paulo (0.8%), Paraná (0.5%), Espírito Santo (0.1%), Ceará (0.1%) and Goiás (0.1%) complete the set of places that registered positive indexes in June 2017. The places that had the sharpest negative results this month were Bahia (-10.0%) an the Northeast Region (-4.0%), with the former eliminating the 5.1% advance recorded in the previous month; and the latter dropping once more after having accumulatied an expansion of 2.8% in the months of April and May. The other negative rates were recorded by Rio Grande do Sul (-1.1%), Pará (-0.4%) and Santa Catarina (-0.1%). Click  here to access the complete publication of the survey.

In the seasonally adjusted series, the evolution of the quarterly moving average index for the overall industry increased 0.8% in the quarter ended in June 2017, against the level of the previous month, and strengthened the growth pace over that of May (0.2%). By areas, in relation to the movement of the index on margin, 10 places registered positive rates, with a highlight to Ceará (2,6%), São Paulo (1,5%), Pernambuco (0,8%), Santa Catarina (0,8%), Minas Gerais (0,7%) and Pará (0,7%). The sharpest loss in June 2017 was seen in Bahia (-2.0%).

In relation to June 2016, industry declined in 8 of 15 places surveyed

In the comparison with the same month of the previous year, the industrial sector grew 0.5% in June 2017, showing positive figures in eight out of the 15 places surveyed. It is worth mentioning that June 2017 (21 days) had one less business day than the same month in the previous year (22). This month, Espírito Santo (10.0%) recorded the sharpest expansion, leverages, mainly, by the advances registered by mining and quarrying industries (pelletized and sintered iron ores) and food products) chocolate candies or bars, crystallized sugar, fresh or cooled beef and dry pasta). Ceará (4.3%), São Paulo (3.0%), Minas Gerais (2.9%) and Rio Grande do Sul (2.1%) also recorded positive rates above the national average (0.5%). Paraná (0.5%), Goiás (0.4%) and Amazonas (0.1%) close the set of places with output growth this month. Bahia (-10.9%) recorded the strongest drop in June 2017, influenced to a large extent by the negative behavior of the sectors of coke, petroleum derivatives and biofuels (diesel oil, naphthas for petrochemicals and fuels oils) and basic metals (copper and copper alloy bars, profiles and rebars). The other negative results came from the Northeast Region (-5.1%), Pernambuco (-2.9%), Pará (-2.1%), Santa Catarina (-0.9%) and Rio de Janeiro (-0.1%). Mato Grosso (0.0%) recorded the same value of June 2016.

In a quarterly basis, the industrial sector, advancing 0.2% in the second quarter of 2017, kept a positive behavior recorded in the first three months of the year (1.0%), when it interrupted 11 consecutive quarters of negative rates in this kind of comparison. The pace of decline in the output for the industry total between the first (1.0%) and the second quarter (0.2%), both comparisons against the same periods a year ago, was seen in 11 of the 15 places surveyed, with highlight to Pernambuco (5.4% to -4.6%), Goiás (6.3% to -1.5%), Santa Catarina  (5.4% to 1.3%), Rio de Janeiro (5.6% to 1.8%), Paraná ( 4.3% to 0.8%) and Mato Grosso (0.3% to -2.8%). The biggest increases between the two periods were observed Ceará (-0.9% to 2.1%) and Bahia (-8.3% to -6.5%).

In the cumulative indicator for the January-June period of 2017, over the same period in the previous year, the increase seen in the national output reached 10 of the 15 places surveyed, with highlight to Espírito Santo (4.5%), Rio de Janeiro (3.6%), Santa Catarina (3.3%), Paraná (2.5%) and Minas Gerais (2.3%). Rio Grande do Sul (1.9%), Amazonas (1.7%), Goiás (1.6%), Ceará (0.6%) and Pernambuco (0.6%) close the set of places with positive results. In these places, the greater dynamism was particularly influenced by aspects related to the manufacture of capital goods (especially those related to the agricultural and construction sectors); of intermediate goods (iron ore, petroleum, pulp, steel and soybean extraction derivatives); of durable consumer goods (cars and brown goods); and semi- and non-durable consumer goods (footwear, textiles and wearing apparel). About the negative results, Bahia (-7.4%) recorded the strongest drop in the cumulative index of the year, influenced to a large extent by the negative behavior of the sectors of coke, petroleum derivatives and biofuels (diesel oil, naphthas for petrochemicals and motor gasoline) and basic metals (copper and copper alloy bars, profiles and rebars). The other negative figures were posted in the Northeast Region (-2.3%), Mato Grosso (-1.4%), Pará (-0.2%) and São Paulo (-0.1%).

The cumulative indicator in the last 12 months, dropping 1.9% in June 2017 in the national total of industry, remained reducing the pace of decline initiated in June 2016 (-9.7%). In regional terms, 11 out of the 15 places surveyed recorded negative rates in June 2017, but 8 showed more dynamism against the index of last May. The main pace gains between May and June 2017 were recorded by Espírito Santo (-9.3% to -6.1%), Minas Gerais (-1.6% to -0.8%), Amazonas (-2.5% to -1.8%), Ceará (-2.0% to -1.3%), Paraná (0.2% to 0.8%) and São Paulo (-1.8% to -1.2%), whereas Pará (5.5% to 4.1%) and Bahia (-8.3% to -8.7%) recorded the greatest losses between the two periods.