From metal mechanics to footwear, exports will hit record highs
DFrom metal mechanics to footwear, exports will hit record highs
2017 promises to be a good year. Foreign sales of metallurgy are growing by 12% and cork, furniture, textiles and footwear are up 4%.
From metallurgy and metal-mechanics to cork, through wood and furniture, textiles and footwear, traditional Portuguese industries expect to hit historic highs of exports this year. Sales to Europe are running at a good pace, much to the boom in German growth, but there is also good news from across the Atlantic – after all, contrary to fears, Donald Trump’s have had any impact for the moment.
The export champion is the metallurgical and metal-mechanic industry. In all, in the first eight months of the year alone, it has sold 10.5 billion euros to foreign markets, an increase of 12%. Rafael Campos Pereira, vice-president of AIMMAP, the metalworkers’ association, admits that “there is some expectation” that the metal chain could reach a value close to 16 billion exported this year. With growth well above 50% are markets such as the US, China and Angola. In Europe, Spain and France are growing at double digits, and even Germany, which was denouncing some anemia, by relocating industrial companies, is once again accelerating.
In Dinheiro Vivo
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