The figure, a first in the country’s history, was reached this Thursday (6th). An Argentinean lawyer has been symbolically chosen as tourist number six million.
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Year-to-date through November, 98,000 units were shipped abroad, as against 95,500 units in the same period of 2012. Still, Brazilian production has declined and the industry doesn’t entertain high hopes for 2014.
The deputy managing director at the Fund, Min Zhu, visited the country this week and said it is necessary to generate private sector jobs. He said that the challenge is the same for other Arab countries.
The European Union has donated 11 million euros for the Palestinian government to make salary and pension payments to 71,000 civil servants and pensioners in November.
Dollar inflows to Brazil exceeded outflows by US$ 2.54 billion in November. Year-to-date, however, there is a US$ 3,481 billion deficit.
A trade delegation from Brazil is travelling to North Africa. The Moroccan city of Casablanca is the last step of the programme.
Output increased in October this year from October 2012, according to Brazil’s Petroleum Agency. October-on-September, however, there was a 0.7% decline.
A delegation from the International Monetary Fund visited the North African country in late November and advised on a tighter fiscal policy.
Such was the combined amount of deals closed by Brazilian businessmen at an event in Algiers, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
The economic growth projection for 2013 was announced by the Arab country’s president Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz. Inflation should be 4.2%, which is considered a good rate.
Next Wednesday (Dec 4th), the Brazilian manufacturing company will introduce a structure with storage capacity for 35,000 tonnes of grain, or 590,000 bags of soy.
Year-to-date through November 28th, Brazil shipped over US$ 6 billion worth of bovine meat abroad. The amount is higher than total exports in 2012. Egypt is one of the main importing countries.
In a bidding round held by Brazil’s National Petroleum Agency, 72 out of 240 onshore blocks auctioned were purchased. The oil company Petrobras acquired 49 blocks.
The Brazilian representative in the dispute, São Paulo was the first eliminated in the voting rounds promoted in Paris. The other competitors were Yekaterinburg, in Russia, and Izmir, in Turkey.
