Cadeias globais de valor, análise de participação comercial e logístico brasileiro (2007/2018)

Abstract

The fragmentation of production in the form of production chains has been an established reality, but it gained a strong global scope from the 1990s onwards. Technological advances in the fields of communication, transport, control and storage activities have made the globalization of activities feasible at a time of commercial opening in the emerging economies. In this context, global value chains emerged in a world where specialization in production and the flow of international trade is focused on intermediate goods. Naturally, this is a process closely related to logistical activity. This form of organization made it possible for developing countries to participate in more sophisticated production chains without the obligation to manage or even build the entire structure, making for more advantageous possibilities of obtaining internal development via international trade. This paper analyzes Brazil's participation in international trade between 2007 and 2018, associating the new paradigm of the GVCs and analyzing the logistical factor. For these purposes, and using descriptive qualitative methodology, a bibliographic survey about the GVCs was carried out, with relevant elements were analyzed in the discussion of the role of Brazil in international trade in the discussed period, such as foreign direct investment, balance of payments, Logistics Performance Index, among others. Several structural problems were identified, such as economic policies problems, bureaucratic structure, physical infrastructure and logistical competence. These are problems that hinder Brazil’s potential for international trade and growth via GVCs.