Seven out of ten small- and medium-sized enterprises in Brazil have been selling their products online since the pandemic started.
Author: Agência Brasil
Infrastructure minister Tarcísio Gomes de Freitas said the amount should be invested in projects under concession to the private sector.
The president sanctioned a law facilitating the shipping of samples containing genetic information to other countries under public health emergency circumstances such as the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Brazilian federal government sanctioned the legal framework approved by the Legislative Branch. The new law is expected to help attract foreign investment into the sector.
Twenty-two Brazilian airports got handed over to two private conglomerates during an auction on Wednesday (7).
Brazilian foreign trade chamber Camex zeroed import taxes on medicines for pain relief, sedation, intubation, and artificial respiration products, as well as monitors for ICUs. Now, the number of items to fight the pandemic with zero import duties reaches 628.
President Bolsonaro signed a provisional measure simplifying business registration and protecting minority investors, among other things.
Country received around 1 million doses of the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine from the WHO-backed global COVAX Facility vaccine-sharing program.
The Ministry of Economy said this Wednesday (17) that it is sticking by its 2021 GDP growth forecast. Whole-year inflation expectation was revised up on the back of food prices.
Brazil’s lower house approved a bill that changes natural gas exploration and distribution. It will now be signed into law by the president.
An index from the Brazilian Central Bank shows activity picking up in January 2021 from December 2020 and slowing down year-on-year in January.
The Coincident Global Barometer from Fundação Getulio Vargas’ Brazilian Institute of Economics (Ibre/FGV) was up 4.5 points in March, primarily as a result of vaccination in Asia, the Pacific and Africa.
Government will devise a policy to increase the country’s supply and minimize reliance on imported products. A work group met on Tuesday, 9. The country relies for some 80% of its fertilizer needs.
A Brazilian Central Bank study concluded that basic items such as soya and ore were the pillars of foreign sales from the country in 2020.
