Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – Members of the British Industrial Confederation (BIC) and the consul general of the United Kingdom in Rio de Janeiro, Paul Yahmourian, are visiting the city and meeting with members of the local industrial federation (Firjan) and small business administration (Sebrae) for talks on business opportunities. The British are led
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Agência Brasil Curitiba – Minister of Development, Luiz Fernando Furlan, says that various proposals for a new industrial policy are under study. The principal objective of such a new policy would be to facilitate investments, creating new credit lines resulting in the modernization of industry and improved logistics so as to reduce operating costs, especially
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – The prime minister of Portugal, José Manuel Durão Barroso, who is visiting Brazil, says that Brazil does not need a gateway into the European community because Brazil is big enough and important enough to deal directly with any country there. But, said Barroso, the Brazilian business community knows that Europe
Agência Brasil Brasília – The National Confederation of Agriculture (CNA) foresees that in the 2004-05 period the agricultural sector will grow all over the world. According to Getúlio Pernambuco, head of the Economic Department (Decon), the bright prospects for the world economy — which, in his view, will grow 3% this year — should increase
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministers of Foreign Relations of Brazil, South Africa, and India are meeting in New Delhi (India) to give continuity to the project for the creation of one great free trade area. The three countries will identify areas of cooperation, negotiate a more intense tripartite trade, and establish partnerships in development
Agência Brasil Rio de Janeiro – When president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes an official visit to China in May, one of the agreements he signs should be a cooperation partnership between state-run petroleum companies in both countries. Petrobras and Sinopec have already begun discussions on joint endeavors in petroleum, natural gas and the petrochemical
Agência Brasil Brasília – The Foreign Ministers of Mercosur countries, the Andean Community of Nations, and Chile, meeting in Buenos Aires, have reaffirmed their commitment to the Miami Declaration on the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA). A document signed by the ministers states that they favor speeding up regional and bilateral agreements and
Agência Brasil Brasília – Yesterday president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva spoke with George W. Bush of the United States for 15 minutes on the phone. Lula asked Bush to support changes in International Monetary Fund classification of government outlays in productive sectors. Lula wants such outlays to be seen as investments and not expenditures;
