The city should show gastronomy, art and handicraft under theme ‘Morocco’. The exhibition should be in October, during a magic festival, to take place in the same moulds as the Moroccan edition.
Author: Isaura Daniel
They are going to participate in the business forum to take place before the Summit of South American-Arab Countries, in Doha, next week. Uruguay is an exporter of services and agribusiness products.
A government team has travelled to the Arab world prior to the Summit of Arab-South American Countries, due next week in Doha, in order to discuss the matter. Chile wants more trade with the region.
The country is going to take eight private sector representatives to the Aspa entrepreneurial forum, due next week in Qatar. The businessmen want to sell more to the Arabs and diversify their markets.
The two countries are among those to have growth of over 3% in consumption of furniture this year, according to an Italian study. Brazil aims at a share of this market, according to the Abimóvel.
Businessmen from the country hope for talks for lower import and export fees during the meeting of heads of state of Arab and South American countries, to take place late this month, in Qatar.
Syria and Egypt answer to 8% of the group’s foreign sales, the leader in grain storage in Brazil in 2008. The group posted 80% growth in general exports and 119% in revenues.
BS Colway, from the state of Paraná, deactivated its retreaded tyre factory last year and is engaged in talks in order to transfer its factory park to other countries, among them Syria and Libya.
The water resource management system in Brazil, decentralized and participative, has been attracting the interest of participants at the meeting, in Turkey, which brought together 20,000 people.
The figure is part of a Brazilian Export Promotion Agency survey showing Brazilian companies business opportunities in the segment. The Emirates is the most promising market in the region.
Riva, a maker of household utensils that has been internationally awarded for its product design, exports to four Arab countries. Products in stainless steel and silver are successful in the region.
Television series Morangos com Açúcar (Strawberries with Sugar), from Portugal, had scenes recorded in Ceará. The program is aired in Portugal, Romania and Syria.
The per capita volume of renewable water resources is decreasing in the Arab countries due to population growth. As a consequence, the region is implementing desalination and reuse projects.
United States-born John Tofik Karam, a great grandson of Lebanese, will launch today in São Paulo a book on the Arabs and neoliberalism in Brazil. It has already been published in English in the US.

