This month, eight enterprises will participate in the Big 5, in a stand organized by the Arab Chamber and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil), and are expecting to strike deals.
Author: Marcos Carrieri
Sociologist and Human Geography PhD holder Demétrio Magnoli is delivering a lecture on what Brazil stands to lose by not joining trade blocs, while other countries associate via free-trade agreements.
A maker of ceramic items in Brazil’s Minas Gerais state already has customers in Europe and the United States, and is setting her sights on increasing sales to other countries.
Technicians from Palestine’s Ministry of Agriculture should visit Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa) facilities in Rio de Janeiro, the Federal District and Ceará in late November. They will take courses in pasture management and animal husbandry.
Brazil’s Ministry of Culture has launched a prize that will award roughly US$ 36,000 to 20 culture internationalization initiatives. Projects are required to be locally developed.
The commodity’s prices are dropping due to heightened supply and weak demand. Costs will tend not to increase in months to come and should prompt enterprises to reformulate their plans.
In a lecture at the Arab Chamber, a specialist in creative cities discusses projects implemented in Brazilian and global municipalities that have improved the quality of people’s lives.
The meeting took place at the official residency of the Egyptian ambassador, in Brasília, and focused on ways to further trade ties between Brazil and the Arab countries.
The 38th São Paulo International Film Festival will include seven feature films made in Arab countries. Non-Arab productions also focus on regional matters such as the Palestinian issue.
Revenues from Brazilian foreign sales were down 7.4% in September and 2.7% year-to-date. According to a specialist, the international market trend should persist in 2015.
Architects, engineers and civil construction executives from Brazil’s Santa Catarina state will see construction sites and meet with local executives.
Ricardo Lewandowski, president of Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court, has enacted a cultural exchange treaty signed in 2010 one day after convening with the Kuwaiti ambassador in Brasília.
Negotiations held during the Rio Oil & Gas exhibition were the best since 2004. Brazil’s National Oil Industry Organization superintendent says sector’s demand will be high in the next few years.
In a lecture delivered at the Arab Chamber, the historian Arlene Clemesha discussed the formation processes of Arab states since World War I and the consequences of the conflict to the region.

