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INVENTORIES (Tables) | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
INVENTORIES |
Schedule of inventories |
|  | 2018 |  | 2017
Finished products |  | 3,985,964 |  | 3,026,556
Work in progress |  | 1,688,794 |  | 1,302,152
Raw materials |  | 2,296,074 |  | 1,703,013
Storeroom supplies |  | 784,517 |  | 298,100
Imports in transit |  | 426,044 |  | 375,139
(-) Allowance for adjustments to net realizable value |  | (13,704) |  | (3,556)
|  | 9,167,689 |  | 6,701,404
Schedule of the changes in the allowance for adjustment to net realizable value of inventories |
Balance as of January 1, 2016 |  | (101,121)
Provision for the year |  | (62,899)
Reversal of adjustments to net realizable value |  | 94,391
Loss of control by selling of subsidiary |  | 30,105
Exchange rate variation |  | 10,711
Balance as of December 31, 2016 |  | (28,813)
Provision for the year |  | (26,545)
Reversal of adjustments to net realizable value |  | 46,740
Loss of control by joint venture creation |  | 392
Assets held for sale |  | 881
Exchange rate variation |  | 3,789
Balance as of December 31, 2017 |  | (3,556)
Provision for the year |  | (11,943)
Reversal of adjustments to net realizable value |  | 3,715
Exchange rate variation |  | (871)
Assets held for sale |  | (1,049)
Balance as of December 31, 2018 |  | (13,704)

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