São Paulo mayor Marta Suplicy participated in the opening ceremony for the UN conference. Governor Geraldo Alckmin said the city and state of São Paulo are fertile soil for the debate of ideas.
Author: Alexandre Rocha
Ministers from the group met yesterday in São Paulo. Today, representatives from Brazil and India, two members of the entity, will meet with authorities from the United States, Australia and the European Union. “We will try to guarantee a good spectacle,” joked Celso Amorim, Brazilian chancellor, who believes in advancements in negotiations regarding agricultural protectionism.
Alexandre Rocha São Paulo – The 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad) has not even officially started, but, up to yesterday (11), 180 heads of delegations had already registered presence at the preparatory events taking place at the Anhembi Convention Centre, in the city of São Paulo. Apart from that, around 2,500
Today and tomorrow, G-20 and G-5 (Brazil, India, Australia, USA and EU) meetings will be held to discuss agricultural subsidies. Chancellor Celso Amorim believes these meetings may unblock World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations. Representatives from the Mercosur (the Common Market of the South, a customs union between Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, and Paraguay) and the European Union will also meet to discuss the agreement between the blocks. Yesterday, the G-77 meeting started and a new roun
Randon, for example, received orders for trailers totaling US$ 1.8 million and partnerships are in negotiation for an assembly line in Algeria. Trading company Double Port, Nogueira Máquinas Agrícolas, Sermáquinas Industriais, Serra Morena and Frigorífico Minerva also closed deals.
Agência Brasil Curitiba – The chairman of the Chicago Board of Trade, Charles Carey, confirmed yesterday (7) that the Board will open an office in Paraná. The office, which will be located in either the capital, Curitiba, or the port of Paranaguá, will make it possible for agricultural commodities sold on foreign markets – especially
The meeting of the group that is made up of developing countries is going to precede the 11th Unctad. A new roundtable of negotiations within the Global System of Trade Preferences Among Developing Countries (GSTP) should be started.
Agência Brasil Brasília – On Wednesday (02), at the opening of the International Conference on Environmental Auditing, brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva affirmed that Brazil at this moment is experiencing "a transition to development." Lula was referring to the speed with which his government is opening foreign markets with great potential demand, and he
On the first day of the fair, Frigorifico Minerva signed orders for export of US$ 1.4 million in cattle beef. Sermáquinas Industriais sold two sets of equipment for chip production, for US$ 200,000. Algerian president, Abdelaziz Bouteflika, visited the Brazilian stand and stated that it was a pleasure to receive representatives from Brazil at the fair.
