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Steel producers in Brazil are expecting a modest expansion of production, sales, and apparent  
challenges in 2023, but long-
term expectations unaffected consumption in the country in 2023, following "excellent" years for the industry, according to
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The chairman of the board of Aço Brasil and also the president of ArcelorMittal Brasil, Jefferson
de Paula, mentioned during a press conference Nov. 30 that the civil construction GDP should
increase between 1.5% and 2% next year, while capital goods should grow 0.5%-1% and the
automotive industry should produce between 5% and 6% more vehicles than 2022.

"We see that infrastructure projects, privatizations that were carried out, plus what was
launched in housing....should start the execution phase next year", said De Paula about the
bases for the projections for steel consumption.

Still, the year is expected to be "challenging" amid the ongoing recession fears, high inflation
and tax rates, plus soaring energy prices denting steel consumption globally, according to
Marco Polo de Mello Lopes, Aço Brasil's executive president.

After 2023, De Paula's assessment is that apparent steel consumption in Brazil should grow by
an average of 3.5%-4% a year. However, the global steel market should "walk sideways" in
consumption, but the costs of raw materials such as coking coal, coke, iron ore, pig iron, and
scrap should retreat "slightly compared to this year."

For 2022, Aço Brasil expects crude steel production to drop 4% on year (34.6 million mt), sales
in the domestic market to contract by 9.5% (20.2 million mt) and apparent steel consumption is
projected to plunge 11.4% (23.2 million mt) on the year-on-year comparison.

"The reductions are due to a strong basis of comparison with 2021—in which the sector
showed the best performance in a decade," Mello Lopes said. He claimed that 2022 was the
fourth best year of the last decade, surpassed only by 2021, 2014, and 2013.

In contrast, exports of finished steel products from Brazil may record a growth of 12.3% to 12
million mt in 2022, favored by the foreign exchange and lower domestic sales in the second half
of the year.

Imports, in turn, should plunge by 34% in 2022 to 3.28 million mt and increase slightly 2.3% in
2023.

The sector's investment plan between 2023 and 2026 is of Real 40.6 billion ($7.80 billion) after
Real 11.9 billion disbursed this year. Lopes stated that the funds are being applied to modernize
facilities to reduce production bottlenecks and improve the product mix, with local steelmakers
betting on the sale of value-added products such as special and coated steels.

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