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3 11.5 to 11.10.2018 The reduction of the expansion pace is clear: at the end of the first quarter, domestic production increased 14.6% in the accumulated of the year, 13.6% at the end of the first half and 10.5% at the end of the third quarter. Although Anfavea’s president, Antônio Megale doesn’t admit it, reaching the projection of 3 million units produced this year (which would represent an increase of 11.1%) is becoming impractical. There are two months until the year’s end and 542 thousand units to be manufactured to reach this goal, in other words, 271 thousand units in November and December. Only one month surpassed this volume in 2018: August, with 291.5 thousand units. The annual average this year is of 246 thousand. There are more complications: November will have two holidays amended in one, from Thursday to Tuesday, and December usually has more modest volumes because of collective vacation. But Megale estimates that “we’ll get close to the projection of 3 million anyway.” In October, 263.3 thousand units were manufactured, advance of 5.2% compared to the same month last year and 17.8% compared to September. Employment - The number of people employed by the automotive sector declined in October compared to September. They are 131 thousand 374 now, decrease of 0.8% before 132 thousand 480 of September. Advance of 2.4% in the comparison with the same month of 2017. According to Megale, the number of professionals in layoff fell to 490 last month compared to 827 from September. There are no workers in the EPL scheme (employment protection). As for the total reduction from September to October (total of 1.1 thousand people) Megale said that Anfavea is still “trying to understand what happened: the numbers involve the entire industry, including machines and there may have been some adjustment in some segments outside the light vehicles, because some companies hired new people”.