With the retreat of 0.5% in the national industry in April, in the seasonally-adjusted series, five out of 15 places surveyed by the IBGE in this indicator recorded negative rates.  The biggest drops were registered in Pará (-11.2%) and Bahia (-5.4%). Goiás (-0.9%) also reported a more intense negative figure than the national average, whereas Minas Gerais (-0.5%) and the Northeast Region (-0.1%) were the other places with negative indexes.

On the other hand, Paraná (12.8%) and Pernambuco (12.2%) recorded a two-digit growth and the highest ones in April. Mato Grosso (4.4%), Amazonas (4.2%), Ceará (3.9%), Espírito Santo (2.7%), São Paulo (1.9%), Santa Catarina (0.4%), Rio Grande do Sul (0.2%) and Rio de Janeiro (0.1%) reported the other positive figures.

Concerning the quarterly moving average (0.2%), seven out of 15 places surveyed registered positive rates in April, highlighting the steepest advances in Pernambuco (4.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (2.9%), Mato Grosso (1.1%) and Ceará (1.0%).

Compared with April 2023, the growth of 8.4% in April 2024 showed positive figures in 16 out of 18 places, with Rio Grande do Norte (25.6%), Santa Catarina (16.0%), Pernambuco (13.2%) and Goiás (12.7%) recording two-digit expansions, the highest ones.

In the cumulative index in the year of 2024, the rise of 3.5% of the national industry was followed by positive figures in 17 out of 18 places surveyed. Rio Grande do Norte (24.4%) and Goiás (11.3%) recorded two-digit advances and the highest ones in the cumulative rate for the first four months of the year.

In the decrease of 0.5% in the industrial activity between March and April, in the seasonally adjusted series, only five out of 15 places surveyed recorded negative changes.  This month, Pará (-11.2%) and Bahia (-5.4%) reported the sharpest drops, the former offsetting the expansion of 4.7% registered in the previous month, and the latter interrupting three consecutive months of growing output, a period in which it accumulated a gain of 4.0%.

Goiás (-0.9%) also reported a more intense negative figure than the national average, whereas Minas Gerais (-0.5%) and the Northeast Region (-0.1%) were the other places with negative indexes in April 2024.

On the other hand, Paraná (12.8%) and Pernambuco (12.2%) recorded two-digit advances and the highest ones this month, with the former place growing once again after accumulatin a loss of 12.6% in the months of March and February, and the latter offsetting the drop of 3.5% reported in the previous month.

Mato Grosso (4.4%), Amazonas (4.2%), Ceará (3.9%), Espírito Santo (2.7%), São Paulo (1.9%), Santa Catarina (0.4%), Rio Grande do Sul (0.2%) and Rio de Janeiro (0.1%) registered the other positive figures in April 2024.

The quarterly moving average index for industry increased 0.2% in the quarter ended in April 2024 against the previous quarter and maintained the predominantly upward trend started in February 2023. In regional terms, seven out of 15 places surveyed recorded positive rates, highlighted by the steeper advances reported by Pernambuco (4.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (2.9%), Mato Grosso (1.1%) and Ceará (1.0%).

In contrast, Pará (-3.0%), Goiás (-1.5%), Bahia (-1.3%) and Amazonas (-1.0%) registered the major retreats in April 2024.

Compared with April 2023, the industrial sector grew 8.4% in April 2024, with 16 out of 18 places surveyed with positive figures. It is worth mentioning that April 2024 (22 days) had four business days more than the same month in the previous year (18).

Rio Grande do Norte (25.6%), Santa Catarina (16.0%), Pernambuco (13.2%) and Goiás (12.7%) recorded the steepst two-digit expansions this month..

In Rio Grande do Norte, the influence was of the positive behavior in the sectors of coke, petroleum products and biofuels (diesel fuel and motor gasoline), manufacture of wearing apparel and accessories (women´s blouses, shirts and the like, and men´s breeches, bib and braces overalls, shorts and trousers) and food products (processed cashew nuts, ice creams and popsicles, candies and wheat flour).

In Santa Catarina, the result was leveraged by food products (frozen poultry and giblets, fish preparations and canned fish, sausages and other preparations of pork and poultry, frozen or cooled fillets and other meat from fresh fish, and frozen, cooled or fresh pork), electrical machinery and apparatus (alternate or direct current electrical motors, frames, panels, booths and other structures equipped with voltage protection devices and refrigerators or freezers for domestic use), manufacture of wearing apparel and accessories (women´s blouses, shirts and the like, adult´s wearing articles, trousers, children´s wearing apparel and its knitted accessories, t-shirts and nightwear or bathing suits) and machinery and equipment (compressors for cooling devices, valves, taps and cocks and their parts and pieces, evaporation devices for air cooling and machinery or devices for the agricultural sector).

In Pernambuco, the rate was influenced by the behavior of the sectors of motor vehicles, trailers and bodies (cars, vehicles for transportation of goods and car pieces), food products (past, refined sugar from sugarcane, cookies and crackers and animal food) and electrical machinery and apparatus (bateries for motor vehicles and fans or circulators for domestic use).

In Goiás, the highlights were the industries of food products (cooled or fresh beef, frozen, cooled or fresh poultry and giblets and crude soybean oil), motor vehicles, trailers and bodies (cars and vehicles for transportation of goods) and manufacture of wearing apparel and accessories (men´s t-shirts, trousers, breeches, bib and brace overalls, shorts and pants and men´s blouses, shirts and the like).

Ceará (12.3%), Rio Grande do Sul (11.7%), Paraná (10.9%), São Paulo (10.8%) and Amazonas (10.0%) also registered more intense positive rates than the national average, whereas Espírito Santo (8.2%), Mato Grosso (8.1%), Maranhão (7.6%), Rio de Janeiro (4.4%), Minas Gerais (3.7%), Northeast Region (2.6%) and Mato Grosso do Sul (2.0%) were the other places that advanced.

On the other hand, Pará (-13.6%) recorded the steepest retreat this month, pressed, to a great extenet, by the activity of mining and quarrying industries (crude or processed iron, manganese and copper ore). Having lost 3.5%, Bahia was the other state that dropped in this index.  

The cumulative index in 2024, over the same period in 2023, expanded 3.5%, with positive figures in 17 out of 18 places surveyed.

Rio Grande do Norte (24.4%) and Goiás (11.3%) reported two-digit advances and the sharpest ones in the cumulative index for the first four months of the year. The former was leveraged, to a great extent, by the activities of coke, petroleum products and biofuels (diesel fuel and motor gasoline). The latter was influenced by food products (frozen or fresh beef, mayonnaise, frozen, cooled or fresh poultry and giblets, tarts, bagasses, bran and other residues from soybean oil extraction, and crude and refined soybean oil), chemicals (deodorants, NPK--based chemical or mineral fertilizers, liquid soaps or detergents, and hair preparations) and motor vehicles, trailers and bodies (cars).

Ceará (7.6%), Mato Grosso (6.8%), Santa Catarina (6.5%), Espírito Santo (6.2%), Amazonas (5.7%), Rio de Janeiro (5.5%), Rio Grande do Sul (5.0%) and São Paulo (4.3%) also registered more intense positive rates than the national average, whereas Pernambuco (3.1%), Minas Gerais (2.6%), Mato Grosso do Sul (2.2%), Bahia (1.6%), Maranhão (1.4%), Paraná (0.7%) and the Northeast Region (0.6%) were the other places that increased their output in the cumulative index in the year..

In contrast, Pará (-1.7%) recorded the only retreat in the cumulative index for the January-April 2024 period, mainly pressed by the activity of mining and quarrying industries (crude or processed manganese and iron ore). 

Comparing the result of the last four-month period of 2023 with the first four-month period of 2024, both of them compared against the same periods in the previous year, ten out of 18 places surveyed gained dynamism, thus following the movement of the national overall, which changed from 1.0% to 3.5%.

Rio Grande do Norte (from 11.1% to 24.4%), Amazonas (from -5.6% to 5.7%), Rio Grande do Sul (from -4.4% to 5.0%), Ceará (from -0.9% to 7.6%), São Paulo (from -0.5% to 4.3%), Maranhão (from -2.5% to 1.4%) and Santa Catarina (from 2.8% to 6.5%) registered the sharpest gains, whereas Espírito Santo (from 20.3% to 6.2%), Pará (from 11.5% to -1.7%) and Paraná (from 9.8% to 0.7%) recorded the major losses.

Having advanced 1.5% in April 2024, the cumulative index over the last 12 months remained growing and stepped up the pace over the results of previous months.

In regional terms, 12 out of 18 places surveyed reported positive rates in April 2024, though 15 of them registered more dynamism over the indexes of last March. Maranhão (from -5.0% to -3.2%), Santa Catarina (from 0.7% to 2.4%), Pernambuco (from 2.9% to 4.5%), Ceará (from -3.1% to -1.6%), Rio Grande do Sul (from -2.0% to -0.7%), São Paulo (from -0.6% to 0.5%), Paraná (from 2.0% to 3.0%) and Goiás (from 8.5% to 9.5%) registered the major gains between March and April 2024, whereas Pará (from 6.4% to 5.0%) recorded the biggest loss between the two periods.