The index calculated by FAO closed 2014 with a drop of 3.7%. The lone exception was the meat group, which recorded a high of 8.1%.
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Brazil shipped 4.1 million tons last year, a 3% increase over 2013. It’s the largest volume ever registered. However, revenues dropped 0.2% in dollar but went up 9% in real.
The country will be an ICC member state as of April 1st. The Arab nation is also adhering to conventions and treaties on transnational organized crime, biological diversity and others.
Output was up 13% year-on-year in Brazil in November, but declined by 1.5% in November from October 2014.
The country sold nearly US$ 3 billion worth of hides and skins to foreign countries last year, up 17% from 2013.
The reduction in the commercialization of cars, utility vehicles, trucks and buses was of 7% in comparison to 2013. A drop of 0.5% over last year is expected in 2015.
According to information from the Brazilian Ministry of Defense, the Arab country showed interest in 24 Super Tucano turboprop, a military aircraft manufactured by Embraer.
The trade balance was at minus US$ 3.93 billion in 2014, the result of US$ 225.1 billion in exports and US$ 229 billion in imports.
Last year, sales reached US$ 1.9 billion, with more than 26 million of sales transactions at Dubai’s airport and at Al Maktoum. Perfume, liquor and gold were the best-selling products.
One of Brazil’s leading high-end fashion brands has incorporated influences from the Arab country to the design of its high summer clothes. It has nine outlets in the country and sells its own creations.
Arabplast will run from January 10th to 13th, featuring exhibitors from 41 countries, including manufacturers of chemical components, packaging machinery, moulding and other products.
Brazil’s National Supply Company donated 42.900 tons of foodstuffs up until November. Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan and Syria are among the Arab countries that received the goods.
The facility overtook Heathrow, in the United Kingdom, in arrivals, with 68.9 million passengers by December 22nd. By the end of the year, 70 million travellers are expected to have passed through.
During a meeting with the Brazilian ambassador in Khartoum, the Sudanese minister of Agriculture expressed his desire to enhance agricultural exchange.
