Argentine and Brazilian biodiesel Industries, an analysis for development

SATTLER SILVANA ANDREA; CASTRO GONZALEZ, ENRIQUE LEOPOLDO

CÓRDOBA- LA CUMBRE

Seminario; ARNOLDSHAIN SEMINAR; 2016

UNC

Argentine and Brazilian biodiesel Industries, an analysis for developmentLic. Silvana Sattler * 1Lic. Enrique CastroGonzalez **Dr. Moisés Centenaro***AbstractDue to strong economic growth present in the world, it began to becomeaware of the needto replace fossil fuels with alternative energy sources, biofuels emerging as a possibleoption.Following Calzada (2014), the biodiesel industry based on soybean oil in Argentina waslosing the first placethat held until 2012 as a producer for various reasons, such as highexport duties, taxation expressed anti-dumpingmeasures the European Union, which weredriven mainly by Spain to rule the country as a seller of the product. Incontrast, theproduction of biodiesel in Brazil has increased significantly going from just over 2.1 milliontons in 2010 to3 million in 2014. Global production of biodiesel in 2014, it shows thatArgentina lost positions compared to other yearsoccupying the 5th place with 2.58 milliontons, being surpassed by the United States with 4.25 million tons, Indonesiawith 2.9 milliontons, Brazil with 3 million tons and Germany with 2.75 million.It stated above, it is proposed as anobjective of this paper to analyze the laws in Brazil andArgentina applied to the biodiesel industry, the economicformation of industry concentrationand economies of scale in operations, to thereby understand the growth fromBrazil, and thefall of Argentina in positions in this market.Under these conditions, and also looking at what happens inBrazil, it would be reasonableto guess that there is a tendency of firms to build ever larger plants and behind it thereissome evidence of economies of scale, which could lead to greater concentration of thebiodiesel industry.Keywords:biodiesel, concentration, economies of scale, legislation.JEL: Q 42, Q 43 y Q 48