From the newsroom São Paulo – Brazilian minister of Agriculture, Livestock and Supply, Roberto Rodrigues, expressed optimism regarding advances unblocking negotiations of agricultural negotiations of the World Trade Organizaton (WTO). He informed this Tuesday (15) that a document is being prepared by the NG-5 (a group of which the United States, the European Union, Australia and India
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From the Newsroom São Paulo – Foreign direct investment in Latin America and the Caribbean drops for the fourth year running. The inflow last year totalled just US$ 49 billion, a value way below the US$ 109 billion of 1999. These figures were supplied yesterday (13), at the 11th United Nations Conference on Trade and
Cattle beef producers brought in US$ 199 million on the foreign market. So far this year, international sales have yielded US$ 866 million. Egypt led the import ranking in the first five months of the year, but in May, Russia headed the list as main buyer.
Information provided by the Brazilian Development Bank shows that the funds will be used in the Program for Financial Support to the Electric Sector for the midwestern state of Goiás and to southern Rio Grande Sul.
The fair in the packaging, food, pharmaceutical product, cosmetic, and chemical sectors took place between June 1 and 4 in São Paulo. In all, 110 foreign companies and 1,654 Brazilian companies participated.
Representatives from the company and from the government of the United Arab Emirates met Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in country capital Brasília yesterday. The idea is initially to have a rout between Dubai and São Paulo and, later, another between Dubai and Rio de Janeiro.
From the Newsroom São Paulo – The number of jobs generated by Brazilian industry has increased for the fourth consecutive month. Positions available went up 0,7% in April as against March of this year, figures supplied by the National Confederation of Industries (CNI), which holds the study monthly. Three thousand companies from 12 Brazilian states were
According to information from the Ministry of Agriculture, the meeting between representatives from Brazil, India, USA, Australia, and the European Union could serve to "unblock" some subjects that are jamming the negotiation agenda on the matter in the WTO scope.
The medical product event ended on Friday with a total of 74,000 visitors, among them 1,393 importers from 45 countries.
A total of 100 units of the Saveiro pickup have recently been shipped to Abu Dhabi, opening the 10th new market for the company in less than one year. Six of them are Arab countries.
The value identified in the first five months of 2004 has already exceeded half the entire revenues registered last year. The increase in trade with the countries visited by president Lula, among them the Arabs, was one of the main points of the ministerial meeting that took place on Friday, in Brazilian capital Brasília.
The company, which produces medical products for newly born children, has already signed a contract for more than US$ 700,000 with importers in the first three days of Hospitalar, the medical fair is taking place in São Paulo. One of the buyers is from Sudan.
