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On the short term, facing more competitiveness with China and India within the international market, we emphasize the need for the acquisition of capital goods, imported without tariffs barriers, for the updating of the Brazilian sawing and polishing industrial complex.

We stress the necessity of the adjustment of the credit lines and a broad reformulation of the tributary bases, because the dimension stones sector is made by small and medium sized companies, currently out of the available resources and with their competitiveness impaired by the taxes and levies in force.

On the short and medium term we point out as relevant:

- T he marble industries updating, as basis for the strengthening of the domestic market and export of final products that aggregate services, design and brand;

- Brazilian machines and equipment industry technological capacitation, aiming towards its qualitative and quantitative adjustment to meet market needs;

- Processing inputs and consumption materials qualification, in order to optimize slabs and tiles sawing and polishing.

On the medium and long term we point out:

- The need to employ more productive looms, polishing machines and blocks chiseling machines than the current ones employed, in order to adequate the Brazilian industrial complex and to meet the forecasted demand within the internal and external markets.

The sawing material increase forecasts and the growing number of looms and blocks chiseling machines necessary for that, lead to the conclusion of the necessity of the current machines and equipment technological profile change, specially of those current offered by the domestic capital goods industry.

One of the major interest issues for the sector’s development is regarding to clusters (mining-industrial businesses regional arrangements) articulation, by means of the consumer market profile characterization, bases formulation for the establishment of producers/processing companies cooperatives, export consortiums structuring, raw materials centers and processing centers composition and research centers capacitation for the studies of industrial residues utilization, technological characterization and commercial products diversification, rocks origin certificate and inputs’ improvement.

We conclude stressing the importance for the sector’s development, of the necessary technological capacitation of Brazilian machines, equipment and inputs industry for the rocks mining, processing and finishing. We further stress that the consistent increase of the processed rocks and services exports shall be, in great part, due to the sector’s strengthening within the domestic market.

It is not considered a concrete perspective of meeting or enlarging the forecasted export goals, with the tax conditions, credit access and technology access currently in force for the sector in Brazil.