The Brazilian extile and garment industry generated 20,892 jobs in the first four months of 2004. This figure is way over the 2,602 in the same period last year. The sector has also had its largest trade balance surplus in 11 years.
Author: Agência Brasil
Brazilian minister of Planning Guido Mantega stated that Brazil could increase its attraction to foreign investment in infrastructure.
The Brazilian president is going to address over 300 US, Canadian, and Mexican businessmen. The idea is to present positive facts and figures about Brazil.
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance surplus registered, in the third week of the month, between June 14 and 20, a surplus of US$ 880 million, with export of US$ 2.2 billion and import of US$ 1.32 billion. With the result, the trade balance surplus has risen to US$ 13.435 billion – export
The Brazilian government has decided to pay a larger price for organic produce from family farming. This is so as to encourage ecological agriculture in Brazil. The country already has the second largest number of farmers practicing ecological farming, losing only to Italy.
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – The rate of industrial growth attained 6.1% in the first four months of the year. Production in Brazil ended the month of April with a 0.1% growth, compared to March, contributing to the elevation of the cumulative result for the four-month period. Cumulative growth over the last 12 months
Dairy product shipping generated revenues of US$ 7.3 million in May, 188,7% over the result in the same month in 2003. Of this total, the Arab country answered to US$ 3.1 million. The sector, however, still shows a deficit. Import totalled US$ 8.3 million in the period.
This information was provided by Maria das Graças Silva Foster, Secretary of Oil, Natural Gas and Combustibles for the Ministry of Mines and Energy, during a speech at Rio Trade Week, an event preceding the 11th Unctad.
Export in the month totalled US$ 7.941 billion and the Brazilian surplus totalled US$ 3.118 billion. In the year, foreign trade has already brought US$ 33.979 billion to the country.
According to the director of the STD/Aids program, Alexandre Grangeiro, the idea is to develop new technologies and medicine so as to reduce treatment cost.
This figure is the result of export of US$ 26.038 billion up to April, and import of US$ 17.912 billion.
As decisions regarding the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) have been postponed, the Brazilian government has decided to ask for international markets to be more open to Brazilian exports. Internally, the government is also concerned with logistics for agricultural product transport to the market.
