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5 5.21 to 5.26.2018 where the HB20 and Creta models are produced, , and the Mercedes-Benz’s truck and bus plant in São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo, which started production on Thursday after a nine-day strike. The sector still can not measure how many vehicles it stopped producing in the week due to the strike, since the lines were stopped gradually until the fourth day of protests. In April, when 266 thousand units were produced in the country, the average weekly production was 12.6 thousand vehicles in 21 working days, the same amount of working days in May. The situation slows production that was increasing in order to supply the demands of the domestic market and exports and may affect the production projections drawn by the sector in January. Anfavea estimated production of 3 thousand 55 vehicles for the year, which would represent a volume 13.2% higher than the one seen in 2017. In the four months 965 thousand 865 vehicles were produced, an increase of 20.7% in comparison with the same period last year. The damage to production, however, may extend to next week, as the resumption would not be immediate after the resolution of the crisis that affected the national economy in recent days. According to a source from the automotive sector heard by the report, it takes about two days, from a possible end of the strike, so that production in the lines of the manufacturers are normalized. There is also another aggravation faced by the manufacturers at the moment, apart from the domestic supply. The strike of the truck drivers also hurt the flow of components produced by Brazilian auto parts to the units installed in Argentina, said the source heard by AutoData. Government negotiations with the truck drivers continued during all day long, on Thursday, 24, with no resolution until early evening.