12.1.2023
EN
Official Journal of the European Union
L 10/51
Labour
(89)
The Commission used the ILO (42) statistics to determine the wages in Brazil.
The ILO statistics provided information on monthly wages of workers in the manufacturing sector and average weekly hours worked (43) in Brazil in 2021.
Additional labour related costs borne by the employer, based on publicly available sources (44), were added to the monthly wage.
(90)
During the RCC of one sampled exporting producer the Commission did not find a record for the actual labour hours, only the standard labour hours.
The exporting producer reported that actual labour hours were on average 10 minutes higher before and after the shift/day worked to arrive and to leave the production facilities.
The Commission therefore increased the standard labour hours of this sampled exporting producer by 20 minutes per shift/day.
Electricity
(91)
In the Second Note, the Commission indicated that it will use the Global Electricity Prices research for electricity (45) benchmark.
The sampled exporting producers claimed that the Commission should use the data from the EDP Brasil (46), the major electricity supplier in the local market of Brazil, taking into account the different tariffs for peak and off-peak periods and relevant prices charged to the category of industrial consumers, which was reliable for the electricity benchmark.
(92)
The Ministry of Mining and Energy in Brazil (Ministério de Minas e Energia) publishes a yearly report on the energy sector in Brazil (47).
The report of 2021 includes the average electricity tariff (48) from all major electricity suppliers applied for the industrial users in Brazil (49).
The Commission considered this source as the most reliable to establish the electricity benchmark, since it included the average tariffs applied by all major electricity suppliers in Brazil contrary to the data source proposed by the exporting producers, which referred to only one supplier.
It therefore used the average electricity tariff for the industrial users published in the report from The Ministry of Mining and Energy in Brazil in 2021.
Manufacturing overhead costs, SG&A and profits
(93)
According to Article 2(6a)(a) of the basic Regulation, ‘the constructed normal value shall include an undistorted and reasonable amount for administrative, selling and general costs and for profits’.
In addition, a value for manufacturing overhead costs needs to be established to cover costs not included in the factors of production referred to above.
(94)
The manufacturing overheads incurred by the cooperating exporting producers were expressed as a share of the costs of manufacturing actually incurred by the exporting producers.
This percentage was applied to the undistorted costs of manufacturing.
(95)
For establishing an undistorted and reasonable amount for SG&A and profit the Commission relied on the financial data of Metalurgica Mococa SA in 2021, as extracted from the Orbis database.
(42) https://ilostat.ilo.org/data/data-catalogue/ (43) Duly adjusted for statutory time not worked, such as vacation and national holidays.
(44) https://establishbrazil.com/articles/whats-real-cost-employee ; https://ccbc.org.br/en/publicacoes/artigos-ccbc-en/how-much-do-your-employees-in-brazil-really-cost/ ; https://bpc-partners.com/ inss-brazilian-salaries-benefits/ (45) https://www.globalpetrolprices.com/Brazil/ (46) https://www.edp.com.br/tarifas-vigentes/ (47) https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/secretarias/energia-eletrica/publicacoes/informativo-gestao-setor-eletrico (48) The peak and off-peak hours and the various additional cost applicable during the period.
(49) https://www.gov.br/mme/pt-br/assuntos/secretarias/energia-eletrica/publicacoes/informativo-gestao-setor-eletrico/informativo-gestaosetor-eletrico-ano-2021.pdf/view