Brazilian foreign sales of medical-hospital and dentistry products totalled US$ 581 million last year. Despite the growth, exports were below Abimo expectations.
Author: From the Newsroom
The program allows analysis of possible environmental and social damage caused in the application of innovations in rural properties.
Randa Achmawi, a Brazilian journalist based in Cairo, received last week the Menton Medias Mediterranee Journalism Award for articles published about the region.
This is the perspective for business for the coming 12 months, after business meetings during the São Paulo International Dentistry Congress, promoted last week.
Last year, Brazil recorded entry of 6.2 million people on regular flights from abroad. In December, the country registered 527,000 arrivals on international flights.
The funds should be made available through the Cooperative Development Program for Value Added Agricultural Production. The measure should guarantee more credit for the 2008/2009 crop.
Brazilian chefs are participating, in Lyon, in "Concours Mondial de La Cuisine Bocuse D´or", considered the "World Cup" of chefs de cuisine and in confectionery show "Coupe du Monde de La Pâtisserie".
In times of financial crisis, the new president of the United States may intensify protectionism, thus reducing Brazilian expectations of improving the agribusiness environment with the United States.
Buyers from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and Egypt are going to meet Brazilian companies next week. The expectation is to prospect US$ 4.8 million in business at the event in São Paulo.
Brazilian foreign sales of the product totalled US$ 114 million in 2008. The main markets were Angola, Paraguay, Argentina, Uruguay and the United States.
Exports from Brazil to the region totalled US$ 36.4 million in 2008. The increase countered a trend of decrease in total shipments. Another highlight was the performance in sales to Italy.
Brazil imported US$ 35.1 billion in chemical products in 2008, growth of 46.6% over 2007. Exports grew 11.3% and totalled US$ 11.9 billion.
Revenues from foreign sales in 2008 were 14% lower than in 2007. The industry expects trouble in 2009 because of the international crisis.
State-owned company produced an average of 2,175,896 oil barrels/day in the country in 2008. Added to extraction abroad, the volume rises to nearly 2.4 million barrels.
