Author: Alexandre Rocha
Perto S.A., from the southern state of Rio Grande Sul, closed a contract with Nazzal Security Group, from Syria, to sell five machines for demonstration. The machines will be exhibited to potential clients in the region. In the evaluation of the company export manager, the Middle Eastern and North African markets have a potential to absorb up to 2,000 units per year in three or four years time.
The Malaysian deputy minister of Industry and Foreign Trade visited the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce to learn more about meat packing plants in Brazil that produce cattle and chicken meat according to Islamic law. Almost half the Malaysian population is composed of Muslims.
Agência Brasil Brasília – A Brazilian small business trade mission to China, under the aegis of the Export Promotion Agency (Apex), has closed deals worth US$462 million. "This is without a doubt the biggest success by Apex in the Lula government," declared Juan Quirós, the agency president. The negotiations involved 100 Brazilian businessmen representing 85
With this phrase, the Brazilian ambassador summarized the accomplishments of the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), which finished in São Paulo today (18). To him, the developing nations left conscious of the need for diversification of their economies.
One of the final documents of the conference, ending today in São Paulo, proclaims that member countries of the World Trade Organization have the responsibility to answer to development matters in their commercial negotiations. The text also pressures the United Nations system to pursue the goal of poverty reduction in half, by 2015.
According to Argentine ambassador Alfredo Chiaradia, who currently presides the committee of members of the Global System for Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries, the third round of negotiations is not going to be limited to reduction of tariffs. He also added that the debate might advance beyond goods trade and include the service sector.
The country candidacy was presented yesterday by the country Ministry of Trade secretary, Slaheddine Makhlouf. According to the Tunisian ambassador in Brazilian capital Brasília, Hassine Bouzid, the next conference, in 2008, should be organized in an African nation.
This information was provided to ANBA by ambassador Naela Gabr, country permanent representative in Geneva. She also pointed out the importance of the G-20 for developing countries, which for the first time managed to have an influence on the World Trade Organization (WTO).
According to the president, an important step has already been taken with the signing of a free trade agreement with the Andean Community. In a speech to the participants of the Civil Society Forum, he defended "a new, complementary relationship" between the developing countries.
The Brazilian president especially wants modifications in the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for calculations on public spending. The changes would allow allocation of more resources toward investments. "It is a good fight," he said. UN secretary general Kofi Annan added that it is necessary to think of "creative" ways to finance development.
At the opening of the 11th Unctad in São Paulo, the Brazilian president criticized the "erroneous recipes" that have underestimated the role of public investments over the last years, and said that commerce, in itself, will not bring development. The secretary general of the UN, Kofi Annan, criticized the "incoherence" of developed nations who preach formulas, but do not follow them.
According to the Brazilian president, his idea is to found an organ for formulation of policies for funding development. He suggested the institution be named after the economist Celso Furtado, to whom prestige was given today at the 11th Unctad.
Alexandre Rocha São Paulo – Kofi Annan, secretary general of the United Nations (UN), said this morning (14), at the opening of the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) in São Paulo, Brazil, that developing nations must take advantage of trade opportunities presented among themselves. "The new round of multilateral talks that
