The country rose to the 13th position, informed Brazilian Foreign Trade Association (AEB) director José Augusto de Castro to ANBA. According to him, there has been no change in the first places in the list: Germany, Japan, Russia, and Saudi Arabia are still at the top.
Author: Giuliana Napolitano
The International Software Business Meeting (ISBM) will be taking place in Brasília from April 27 to 29. "Brazil is at an excellent point to occupy space in the IT area in the region," informed Gilberto Lima, project coordinator at Brazilian Intelligence in Software (Brains), the consortium of exporters who organizes the event, to ANBA.
The record sales volume last month caused the government to elevate the export target for this year, forecasting a 12% increase to US$ 82 billion up to December. The figures were announced on Thursday (1) by Development minister Luiz Fernando Furlan. Libya showed the largest increase in the Arab market, 285%.
The reception will take place on Wednesday (31) in Brazilian capital Brasília. "This is recognition for the work they have been doing in bringing Brazil closer to the Arab countries," informed the chief ambassador of the Special Palestinian Delegation to Brazil, Musa Odeh.
The country wants Brazilian oil company Petrobras to join forces with other foreign companies to explore oil in the Red Sea. The country is also interested in a Brazilian company to supply boilers to a sugar mill, and in negotiation agricultural technology. "We want to come closer to Brazil," informed Ramatullah Mohamed Othman, Sudanese ambassador in Brasília, to ANBA.
During a visit to Lebanon this week, the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB), Paulo Atallah, discussed this proposal with the government and with local businessmen. The creation of a direct flight between São Paulo and Beirut was also discussed.
Travel News Network should go on air in September, and be transmitted in Brazil and Latin America on the paid television system. Partnerships are also being negotiated with Arab, European, and Asian countries, informed Paulo Ricci, project director of company Mixer, in charge of the enterprise. One of the company partners is filmmaker Carlos Diegues, famous for films such "God is Brazilian" (2002), "Orfeu" (2000), "Tieta of Agreste" (1996), and "Bye Bye Brazil" (1979), among others.
The objective of the National Investment Information Network (Renai) is to centralize federal government and state government data and make investment "more transparent," informed project coordinator Denise Andrade Rodrigues to ANBA. The site will have a new company databank, which is not complete yet: an English version, for example, is missing.
The Muslim Beneficent Society, founded in 1929 by a group of around 20 immigrants and Arab descendants in São Paulo, currently runs a mosque, a cemetery, an Islamic school, and intends to create, up to December, an Arabic course in the southeastern city of São Paulo.
The Muslim Beneficent Society, founded in 1929 by a group of around 20 immigrants and Arab descendants in São Paulo, currently runs a mosque, a cemetery, an Islamic school, and intends to create, up to December, an Arabic course in the southeastern city of São Paulo.
Preliminary figures supplied by the official Brazilian Tourism Agency (Embratur) show that the country received 4.09 million visitors in 2003, an 8.12% increase. In the same period, world tourism has dropped 1.2%. The government also wants to promote Brazil as an ecotourism, and adventure, luxury, and business tourism destination.
Company Buschinelli, from the state of São Paulo, has already made contract with a North American company to export to the Arab country and participate in the reconstruction process. To the sector association, the entire Middle East has potential.
After the visit of Lebanese president Émile Lahoud to Brazil, in February, Lebanese Foreign Relations Minister Jean Obeid proposed that the summit to take place in Brazil be included in the topics to be discussed, informed to ANBA the adjunct chief of the permanent League of Arab Nations mission, Sayed Torbey.
The first deals should take place this year, stated the Brazilian Electrical and Electronics Industry Association (Abinee) foreign relations director, Humberto Barbato. His company, Cerâmica Santa Terezinha, a maker of electric insulators, is about to export to Saudi Arabia. Electronic product sales to the region are still low, but rose 78% last year.
