Foreign sales of the product totalled US$ 115 million last year. From January to November, exports generated US$ 1 billion, which represented reduction of 42%.
Author: From the Newsroom
The current crop should be 10% greater than the previous one, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. Brazil answers to 20% of global production of the commodity.
The US$ 4 million deficit was the result of exports of US$ 3.212 billion and imports of US$ 3.216 billion, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Next Tuesday, cultural centre Casa das Rosas will promote the Middle Eastern Poetry Evening. Classical and contemporary poems from the region will be read.
The Mirabela complex, in Itagibá, should represent growth of 30% in Brazilian nickel production. With the discovery, the state is becoming the second main producer of the ore in the country.
The call to tender and contract for construction of a high-speed train, connecting São Paulo to Rio, should be open to public inquiry. The proposals presented should be opened in May.
Brazil exported 13.7% less than in the same month of last year. In the year-to-date result ended November 2009, however, foreign sales have grown 6%.
Prize for female entrepreneurs has 10 finalists. The winners will be known in April 2010.
Embraer had its second meeting with Middle Eastern operators of the Legacy 600. The company has around 20 jets of the kind operating in the region.
Repsol YPF plans on investing US$ 15 billion in the country by 2020, in the basins of Santos, Campos and Espírito Santo. The British BG Group, in turn, will allocate US$ 20 billion to the Tupi Field.
In the book ‘In the Arabian Nights,’ released recently in Brazil, the Anglo-Afghan writer Tahir Shah combines stories of his life in the Arab country and characters of local culture.
The Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency will inaugurate its service unit in São Paulo tomorrow. The aim is to heighten the level of information of companies interested in exporting.
There has been a 1.3% increase in throughput last October, as against the same month last year. In passenger transport, the growth was 1.8% in the same comparison, according to ACI.
Complex The Wave, in Muscat, won the International Property Awards in the architecture category. The enterprise includes a resort, housing, hotels, a marina, a golf course, stores and restaurants.
