The month saw 3 million bags shipped from Brazil. Sales to Arab countries slid 15.7% year-over-year in the first quarter.
Author: From the Newsroom
So far, 177 items have been made tax exempt in Brazil. Newly added products include zinc, vitamin D, and inputs for the manufacturing of respirators and lung ventilators.
Widam, one of the country’s largest beef suppliers, now sells this and other food products by app. In its website, the company states it sells bovine meat from Brazil.
The monetary authority announced that 8,000 enterprises and 100,000 individuals late on their credit payments will be taken off its ‘I-list’ amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
Arab Chamber holds next Wednesday (8), from 9 to 10:30 am (BRT), an online conference on food supply in Brazil-Arab trade. Khaled Hanafy, of Egypt, and minister Tereza Cristina, of Brazil, will join.
Foreign sales went up in terms of shipped volume, but declined in terms of revenue.
Brazilian Mines and Energy minister Bento Albuquerque spoke over the phone with Saudi prince Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud and confirmed that the country will join the group’s discussions on petroleum.
Request was submitted to the Ministry of Agriculture in 2019, and International Zoosanitary Certificate was completed this year.
The new TND 10 bill features a depiction of Tawhida Ben Cheikh, the Arab country’s first-ever female physician.
Country will pay 60% of wages of private sector for three months. Plan aims at mitigating COVID-19 effects.
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, the UN Refugee Agency has launched the Refugee Entrepreneurs webpage to raise awareness on the business of refugee people. This first week, five food business have been listed in São Paulo, including three Arabs.
Besides donating masks, hand sanitizers and pillowcases to the largest public hospital in the East Zone of São Paulo, the Chamber is campaigning for new contributions.
To help fight coronavirus, Brazilian companies from different sectors turn their plants and expertise to the production of masks, ventilators, and medical coats and shoes.
The National Confederation of Industry (CNI) expects foreign sales to go down as a result of the coronavirus crisis.
