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In an exclusive interview to ANBA, state economic and planning secretary Andrea Calabi talks about how the public-private partnership (PPP) projects will work. According to him, US$ 2.6 billion of the US$ 10.6 billion in forecasted investment in the state Multi Year Plan (PPA) up to 2007 should come from these partnerships, many of them with foreign investors. Among them, the Arabs, who Calabi believes are a "source of great potential".

Em entrevista exclusiva à ANBA, o secretário de Economia e Planejamento do estado, Andrea Calabi, fala sobre como funcionarão os projetos de parcerias público-privadas (PPP). Segundo ele, R$ 7,5 bilhões dos R$ 30,1 bilhões de investimentos previstos no Plano Plurianual do estado até 2007 devem sair dessas parcerias, muitas das quais deverão ser feitas com investidores de fora do país. Entre os quais, os árabes, que, de acordo com Calabi, são "fonte de grande potencial".

Granibras, a granite producer located in the city of Itatiba, interior of the southeastern state of São Paulo, registered an expressive increase in export between 2002 and 2003. The reason, according to the company management, is the rising European currency.

Analysts heard by ANBA mention a need for reduction of bureaucracy and centralization of policies in areas including central matters that have not yet been faced. "Our current system is a bit of an anarchy if considered a strategic sector for the federal government," stated the president of the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association (AEB), Benedicto Fonseca Moreira.

Small companies represent over half of the 915 exhibitors at the fair. Mistique, from the city of Novo Hamburgo (in the interior of Rio Grande do Sul state, in the far South of Brazil), and Balboa, from southeastern São Paulo, are examples of small producers who signed important export contracts in their first participation in Couromoda.

Firmas de menor porte representaram mais da metade do total de 915 expositores da feira. A Mistique, de Novo Hamburgo (RS), e a Balboa, de São Paulo, são exemplos de pequenas fabricantes de sapatos que fecharam importantes contratos de exportação em sua primeira participação na Couromoda.