The report will be produced by the secretary general of the CCAB, Michel Alaby, at the request of the League of Arab Nations, with the objective of providing the organization with information before the summit between Arabs and South American heads of state, scheduled for the end of this year.
Author: Alexandre Rocha
Sales to the Arab countries in the first three months of the year have already generated over half the revenues of the whole of 2003. Specialists bet on increases in the price of the commodity.
Reed Exhibitions, which belongs to Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier, organizes 430 events in 32 countries every year. Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt are some of the hosts.
The Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace) is going to take place in São Paulo between April 15 and 17. Over 100 companies are going to exhibit and 3,500 visitors are expected. The sector has a turnover of US$ 300 million per year in the country.
The country sold the product on the international market for the first time at the end of last year, due to low prices on the domestic market. Now, as the domestic market is warming up, production should rise, but foreign trade should drop. However, producers are prepared to supply good offers on the international market.
Between April 26 and 28, the industrial city of São Paulo will host an event promoted by the Tunisian embassy, the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, and the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) to provide incentives to bilateral trade and partnerships between industrialists in both countries. Tunisian ambassador Hassine Bouzide informed ANBA that 15 Tunisian executives from different sectors should come to Brazil.
Maurício Botelho made his most emphatic defence of the Mirage 2000 BR, offered by consortium Embraer/Dassault, today, and disqualified the competitors.
In a press conference to announce the company results for last year, company president Maurício Botelho stated that operations on the Arab market involve the corporate area, civil aviation, and defence.
According to company president, Maurício Botelho, 2003 was still a year of difficulties for the aeronautical sector, causing a reduction in the number of aircraft delivered.
The minister stated that US and French authorities have requested that the country play "a leadership role". He pointed out, however, that there has not yet been a formal invitation.
The Brazilian foreign relations minister also stated that closer relations between the developing countries will be one of the themes of the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (Unctad), to take place in São Paulo in June.
According to ambassador Pedro Motta, head of the Africa Department in the Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty), the Health Ministry is going to make three medication kits available, each capable of providing assistance to 3,000 people for three months.
Starting in 2005 the intention is to have races on three continents. Brazil is one of the possible destinations. The 2004 season will include Brazilian racing car driver Augusto Farfus Jr., European Formula 3000 Champion in 2003, and will also mark the return of Italian driver Alessandro Zanardi to the race tracks.
Agromon S/A, a company in MPE group, is going to invest over US$ 10 million, with around US$ 5.4 million invested by the BNDES, to increase the area they plant grain in their farm in the centre-western state of Mato Grosso from 6,000 to 18,000 hectares.
