In the second week of the month, exports from Brazil reached US$ 3.883 billion and imports totalled US$ 3.387 billion.
Author: From the Newsroom
The footwear and fashion accessories fair, due to begin on Monday in São Paulo, is expecting to receive 70,000 visitors from Brazil and abroad. Exhibitors account for 90% of the industry’s output.
Music and dance teacher Marcia Dib will give a lecture and a course this month on the characteristics of Arab music, in São Paulo. The events will be open to the public.
This is the forecast for the average growth of the economies of the Middle East and North Africa in 2011. Next year, the estimate is for 4.4%, according to the Global Economic Prospects report.
The figure was 9% higher in 2010 than in the previous year. Exports totalled US$ 1.4 billion, and imports reached US$ 4.9 billion.
Revenues from Brazilian exports to the Middle East reached US$ 2.2 billion last year, an increase of 13% compared with 2009. Brazil exported a total of US$ 6.8 billion.
The hotel in Anguilla, a British territory, should be inaugurated in three years.
The region’s share of Brazilian agribusiness exports has risen from 9% to 10%. Revenues from shipments to the Middle East reached US$ 7.7 billion last year.
This is the value of contracts signed from January to mid December, with US$ 33 billion turned just to civil construction works. The country is the second main market in the sector in the Middle East.
Brazilian foreign sales totalled US$ 5.66 billion last year, growth of 33% over 2009. The volume shipped was 33 million bags, growth of 9%.
The fourth World Future Energy Summit will be held from January 17th to 20th in Abu Dhabi. The event will address matters such as biofuels and solar energy, among others.
Starting on Monday, Brazilian soap opera O Clone (The Clone), which was a big hit in Brazil and abroad in 2001, will return to the screen on the Rede Globo network.
The São Paulo Stock Exchange (Bovespa) reached record levels of financial volume, trading volume and market value reached by shares traded.
The Qatari and Brazilian airlines have established a code-share agreement. Passengers of the Arab company will have access to 48 destinations in the Brazilian territory.
