Machine and equipment industry sales revenue reached R $ 200.8 billion in the first eight months of the year (January to August), 10.6% above the same period of 2024. The result, however, shows a deceleration in sales growth in 2025: in accumulated until July, the elevation, compared to the previous year, was 13.6%. The data, released on Wednesday (1st), are from the Brazilian Association of Machinery and Equipment Industry (ABIMAQ).
In August, with the start of US fare against Brazil, sales revenue fell 5.6% over the same month of 2024 and reached R $ 26.5 billion.
“This performance in the industry revenue came in line with expectations. For the coming months the tendency is to maintain the slowdown, reflection of the contractionist monetary policy and aggravated by tariffs on the products of the machine and equipment industry,” the entity said in a statement.
From January to August, the industry’s internal sales revenue totaled R $ 153.2 billion, 12.7% higher than in the same period last year. Exports in the sector totaled US $ 8.3 billion in the first eight months of 2025, a slight drop of 0.1% compared to the same period of 2024.
“Despite stability, there were, among exported product groups, increased sales of agricultural machinery, non -durable consumer goods and components. The highest growth occurred in sales to South American and -scale countries in Argentina, Chile and Peru,” the entity pointed out in a statement.
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Change in exports
According to the association, in the accumulated of 2025, there were important changes in the main destinations of Brazilian exports of machinery and equipment. North America sales fell 9%, while Europe and South America grew 11.6%and 17.2%, respectively.
In South America, the highlight was Argentina, with an increase of 47.2%in exports, pulled by the expansion of agriculture machine sales (+82.8%) and construction (+80.1%).
For the United States, which accounted for 25.9% of exports in the sector from 2025, until August, there was a 7.5% drop in sales, mainly due to the retraction in demand for construction machines (-14.9%). In 2024, sales to the US represented 26.9% of total industry exports.
The imports maintained the growth trajectory, totaling US $ 21.1 billion from January to August, up 9.1% over the same period by 2024.
The imports of August had as its main origin China (30.6% of the total), which recorded an increase of 12.9% in its sales to Brazil compared to July. From the year, until August, China also remains the main origin of imports, both in participation (31.8% of the total) and in growth rate (+18.0%) compared to 2024.
