Author: Mark Ament
Yesterday the Brazilian aircraft maker commemorated the delivery of the first three Embraer 175 jets. Apart form the event marking the entry into operation of the model, it had a special taste due to the fact that the buyer was Air Canada, a Canadian company, like Bombardier, the main Embraer competitor.
This is the strategy of Macedo, in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, to grow on the foreign market. In the Middle East, the door of entry that was found was Yemen, to which the company exports 300 tonnes of chicken a month. This year the company should export 21,500 tonnes to over 20 destinations.
According to the Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, the proposal presented by the group of developing countries in the last meeting of the organization, in China, forecasts the reduction of the so-called domestic support, of subsidies to exports and market access. The negotiations of the Doha round will continue in December.
This estimate was made yesterday by the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB), Antonio Sarkis Jr. During a meeting with journalists in the economic area, he made a balance of trade with the Arabs in the first half and discussed expectations for the future. "The Arab world is in fashion," stated Sarkis, referring to the fact that companies have discovered the potential of the region.
In an interview to ANBA, the Egyptian deputy minister of Foreign Trade, Achraf El Rabie, emphasised that his country will be greatly benefited by the commercial treaty currently being negotiated with the South American bloc. He also spoke of the reforms promoted by his government to attract investments and defended the creation of an air route between Brazil and Egypt.
Companies identify niches in the market and invest in creativity. One of the examples is Oníria, from the city of Londrina, in the southern Brazilian state of Paraná, which developed a game that is amongst the 20 most sold in Germany. The company Malisoft, from Curitiba, also in Paraná, has won the demanding Japanese market, where they get 60% of their revenue.
This is the analysis of specialists in foreign trade and is based on foreign trade figures for the first half. In all, 1,357 companies from Brazil sold to the region, against 1,257 in the same period last year. The number of products shipped, in turn, rose from 1,440 to 1,535. The increase in export revenues was 18%.
Agência Brasil Brasilia – The Brazilian Support Programme for Small Businesses to become Exporters (PMEs) will have a four-year budget of US$ 58.6 million. The program has been approved by the Foreign Financing Commission (Cofiex), which is housed in the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management. Half of the program funding, US$ 29.3 million, will
Agência Brasil Brasília – For the last five years the producer coffee market has been in a price crisis. New producing countries have appeared and production in general has increased, upsetting the supply-demand balance. To discuss the problem, the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture and the International Coffee Organization will sponsor a World Coffee Conference between
