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85 AutoData | October 2018 may represent changes in the interest rate, inflation, exchange rate... this can stop many things. We will only be able to size the risks after the result”. The company anyway expects to maintain the current scenario after the announcement of the winner and (in this scenario) the coming year for the truck market should repeat the 2018 advances in terms of sales and production. “The market should end this year with sales at the range of 65 thousand units, which is little for Brazil’s potential.” Schiemer understands that the Selic (interest rate) at a level of 6.5%, where it is today, favors financing – a sufficient factor to boost the market, along with repressed demand and opportunities in agribusiness: “These three factors combined justify the growth we have seen so far, which is still small in absolute terms. In any case, business has reappeared in companies that have business based in assets. About distribution, regarding the small fleet owner, the market has not grown yet. The natural path for next year is the continuity of the trend”. In exports, however, the repetition of performance seen in the first half of 2018 is considered improbable due to Closing 2018 Total market 65 thousand (above 14 T) Selic (interest rate) 6,5% The market should close 2018 with sales at the range of 65 thousand units, which is little for Brazil’s potential. Philipp Schiemer the economic situation in Brazil’s main automotive partner in Mercosur: “If Argentina does not recover, we will become stagnant. We are growing in other markets, such as Chile, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia, but the great partner is indeed Argentina. We have already exported 40% of the production there and now, because of this situation, we will stay at 30% “.