Competitividade das exportações dos principais produtos do agronegócio no nordeste brasileiro.

Abstract

This study evaluates the export value competitiveness of chemical wood, soda or sulphate pulp (other than non-coniferous dissolving, semi-bleached or bleached pulp); broken or unbroken soybean (other than for sowing); other sugarcane sugars; cotton; bagasse and other solid residues from soybean oil extraction as well as hides from Northeastern Brazil from 2002 to 2016. We used the following indicators: Balassa’s revealed comparative advantage index, Vollrath’s symmetric index of revealed competitiveness and the normalized revealed comparative advantage index. Data were extracted from the Brazilian foreign trade (COMEX STAT) database of the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC). The results indicated that the six analyzed commodities exported by Brazil’s Northeastern region —mainly by the states of Ceará, Rio Grande do Norte, Pernambuco and Bahia — had a comparative advantage over the other states of Brazil, with the exception of bagasse and other solid residues, and the best performance was by chemical wood pulp and cotton.