From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Brazilian football team will be departing tomorrow (09) on their way to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, where they will play a friendly game against the country team on Saturday (12). The players leaving from Brazil are Cicinho, Gustavo Nery and Ricardinho, together with
Author: Mark Ament
Brasília Export, established in the Brazilian capital in 2002, wants to sign a contract with a local distributor to return to sales to the Arab market. The partnership may be signed during the Index, the sector fair that is going to take place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, between November 28 and December 02.
Amir Housni Lutfi will be arriving in São Paulo this Thursday to meet with representatives of the business sector and visit organizations established by the Arab community. He is going to visit the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp), and the Heart Hospital, among other institutions.
Up to October, bilateral trade has totalled US$ 8.573 billion, against US$ 8.192 billion in the whole of last year. Exports have totalled US$ 4.279 billion and imports, US$ 4.294 billion, showing equilibrium. The rate of growth in business with the region is still above the national average.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil and China are going to establish a partnership for production of edible and medical mushrooms in Brazil. The director of the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (Embrapa), Sílvio Crestana, and the vice president of Longyan University, Lin Yuexin, signed the technical cooperation agreement on Friday (4). Yuexin is part
Agência Brasil* Brasília – Brazilian exports reached US$ 2.042 billion in the first three working days of the month, and imports totalled US$ 1.153 billion. With this, the trade balance result was US$ 889 million favourable to Brazil, the best daily average in all time, with an average of US$ 296.33 million. This performance in
To the Egyptian minister of Tourism, Ahmed Al Maghrabi, it is necessary to develop actions for the promotion of visits between the countries. In an interview to ANBA, he stated that it is essential to simplify trips, through the creation of direct flights, or agreements between airlines. Tourism employs 1 million people in the Arab country and has a turnover of US$ 6.3 billion a year.
The group has a production of 15,000 tons a year in four farms in the São Francisco River Valley, in northeastern Brazil. Part of the fruit is exported to the United States, Canada, Europe, Asia and South America. The United Arab Emirates is among the importers.
Exports by company Pegada (Footprint in Portuguese) to Kuwait, Lebanon, Oman and the United Arab Emirates grew 120% in four years. The company ships 20% of its daily production of 5,000 shoes abroad. As the company target is to increase sales by 10% in 2006, they are going to invest in participation in foreign fairs, like Motexha, in Dubai.
The Brazilian government is going to promote between November 20 and 22 a business mission to Algeria. The objective is to reduce the trade balance deficit with the Arab country, which reached US$ 1.8 billion in the first nine months of 2005. Large companies like Brazilian oil giant Petrobras, Brazilian aircraft maker Embraer and Randon, a maker of trailers and semi-trailers, have already confirmed their presence in the delegation.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – The estimate for grain production in the 2005/2006 crop, published today (03) by the National Food Supply Company (Conab), expects growth of up to 10% in the Brazilian production, when compared to last year. The forecast is that grain production should reach 124.9 million tonnes. Last year, the country produced 113.5
Abirochas is going to participate in the Big 5 Show, the largest construction material fair in the Middle East, to take place in the United Arab Emirates in November. According to the president of the organization, the Arab market has potential to import the products. "It is a promising market with high buying power," stated Sérgio Azeredo.
Agência Brasil* Brasília – In October, Brazilian exports totalled US$ 9.904 billion, while imports reached US$ 6.218 billion, generating a surplus (positive balance) of US$ 3.686 billion in the month. This result was 14.83% lower than the balance obtained in September, but was 22.70% greater than that in the same period last year. With this,
So as to stimulate exports to the Middle East and North Africa, industries in the furniture hub in Arapongas, in the interior of the state of Paraná, are going to participate in the Index fair, in Dubai. Eighteen companies connected to the Conex-Furniture Brasil consortium, plus companies Moval and Poquema, have already confirmed presence at the fair.
