Preliminary data from a survey on foreign visitors attending the World Youth Journey show that 93% want to come back to the country, and 65% are in Brazil for the first time.
Author: From the Newsroom
The region’s GDP growth estimate has been lowered from 3.5% to 3%. Weak growth in Brazil and Mexico are partly to blame.
The institution’s insurance arm is providing US$ 13.1 mn in guarantees to expansion works at the As-Samra sewage treatment plant, the country’s largest. The station will generate most of the power for its own functioning.
Brazil’s Foreign Trade has lowered the import tariff on front-end loaders, shovel loaders and backhoe loaders to 14%.
Net inflows to Brazil amounted to US$ 7.17 billion during the month. In the first half, inflows stood at US$ 30 billion, up 1%.
Foreign sales revenues amounted to US$ 5.3 billion. The balance of trade showed a US$ 558 million surplus.
The article ‘Green tarmac wins roads,’ by journalist Isaura Daniel, is running up for the Brazilian Construction Industry Chamber Prize.
The 16th edition of Abimad will open on July 30th at São Paulo’s Imigrantes Exhibition Centre. Organizers are expecting importers, including guests from Latin American countries.
In the Confederations Cup, the average spending of foreigners in the city was US$ 1,211 per person. Then came Rio de Janeiro, Recife and Salvador.
The emirate’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry has informed that its affiliated companies have exported and re-exported a combined US$ 39.5 billion in the first half, up 7% from the same period in 2012.
From 2010 to the first quarter of this year, the state has received 46% of professionals from abroad coming into Brazil. A total of 94,526 work permits were issued, according to Investe São Paulo.
Funds are needed to provide basic services. Somalis receive humanitarian aid from Ethiopia. UNESCO condemns damage to the heritage of Syria.
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the total is US$ 121 billion. The greatest growth over last year was in products like potatoes, tobacco, oranges, maize, soybean, tomatoes and wheat.
The difference between exports and imports was US$ 619 million negative last week, after being US$ 198 million positive in the previous week.
