The president said that Brazil should grow 5% in 2010 and invited investors to make use of the business opportunities offered by the country. Lula spoke on the matter while in London.
Author: From the Newsroom
São Paulo – Volkswagen Brazil is negotiating the sale of Voyage vehicles to Iraq. According to an article on website G1, the value of the deal should exceed 250 million Brazilian reals (US$ 142 million). The vehicles should be used for renewal of the taxi fleet in the country, to be financed by the government
Foreign sales of the Brazilian petrochemical company rose to US$ 579 million in the third quarter of this year due to higher prices of resins on the international market.
NGO Espaço Cultural Diálogos do Sul has open enrolments for the course ‘Arab world past and present,’ to be held from the 10th to the 26th this month in the city of Rio de Janeiro.
According to Development minister Miguel Jorge, the country should become a construction site over the next five years due to international events to be hosted and to infrastructure investment.
The sector should receive US$ 47 billion by 2013, according to figures supplied by the Ministry of Mines and Energy. Brazil has 7,000 mines with extraction of ores like iron, gold, copper and zinc.
The Brazilian cooperative answers to 5% of the global sugar trade and plans revenues of US$ 4.9 billion in the next sugarcane crop. The organisation announced a new associate, Pioneiros Bioenergia.
RDA, an international organisation to support rural communities, selected 23 Embrapa researchers. They will be recognized for the foreign projection of their scientific work.
The financial operations tax should not affect foreign investment in the Brazilian productive chain. The government is only taxing funds coming into the capital markets and fixed income investment.
In one of the largest gas discoveries this year, Repsol confirmed an estimated 1 bn to 1.4 bn barrels of oil equivalent of gas in the Gardón IV block, in the Gulf of Venezuela.
The 9th Datagro International Conference on Sugar and Alcohol should take place today (19) and tomorrow (20) in São Paulo. The theme of the meeting is the sector’s perspective for after the crisis.
Brazilian sales totalled US$ 105.9 million, which represented growth when compared to August. In the year, Lebanon is one of the markets that boosted purchases of the product the most.
Three innovative Brazilian initiatives are competing for the ‘Experiences in Social Innovation,’ of the Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. In all, 13 initiatives are running up.
Brazilian companies participating in the food sector fair in Germany returned with good sales perspectives, totalling US$ 1 billion. Some of the importers with which contacts were made were Arab.
