After seven months of shrinking export volumes, Brazilian foreign sales of chicken returned to growth last month. The Arab countries imported 155% more in terms of volume when compared to July this year. Brazilian sector exports as a whole totalled US$ 339.34 million and shipments reached 299,150 tonnes, an increase of 12.7% when compared to August last year.
Author: Mark Ament
Mohamed Madi, president of Madi International, a distributor of beauty accessories, is going to participate in business roundtables promoted by the Abihpec during the Cosmoprof Cosmética international fair, to take place between September 23 and 26, in São Paulo.
According to specialists in the industry, the state, which already supplies to the region, may expand sales of greater added value products at competitive prices. Asia as a whole is in the expansion plans of Parana state exporters.
The contract was signed between A. Guerra S.A., a maker of road equipment, and Excel, from the emirate of Sharjah. The Brazilian company is already transferring technology to its Arab partner, which will assemble and distribute the whole line of products throughout the region, including bodies and trailers for lorries.
The emirate is considered strategic for entry into the Arab world, according to Ming Chao Liu, manager at Organics Brasil, which is dedicated to the promotion of the sector. The idea is to organize a fair exclusively of Brazilian products in 2007 or 2008. In October, the BioFach fair, in the organic product sector, will take place in São Paulo, southeastern Brazil.
The Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp) promotes today a seminar for the release of the Latin American version of the greatest organic product fair in the world, to take place next month. Brazil wants reach a market share of 10% of the global market, which currently consists of US$ 40 billion. The Arab countries are considered potential buyers of organic items like meats and fruit.
This is one of the conclusions of specialists, government representatives and private sector representatives who are participating, in the city of Goiânia, capital of the midwestern Brazilian state of Goiás, in the 65th Plenary Meeting of the International Cotton Advisory Committee. Demand should remain above supply, benefiting producer countries like Brazil and Egypt.
Both organizations are going to analyse the sectors in which there is greater potential for business between Brazil and Syria. Yesterday, the members of the trade delegation from the Arab country, which is in São Paulo, participated in the last day of business roundtables in the city. Around 30 Brazilian businessmen showed up.
In August shipments of agribusiness products to the region generated US$ 524.5 million. In the accumulated result for the year, sales have already totalled US$ 2.6 billion, an increase of 16% when compared to the first eight months of 2005.
A delegation of businessmen from the Arab country is in São Paulo to negotiate with Brazilian companies. Yesterday they participated in business roundtables at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce. Hamwi Café, for example, the leader in the Syrian coffee market, is seeking suppliers of the commodity. Hajar Trade, in turn, wants to double imports of Brazilian foodstuffs.
The Brazilian vehicle factory shipped the bus chassis this month to its distributor in the Arab country. The units will be assembled in Jordan and will receive bodies made by Elba, one of the greatest companies in the sector in the region. This is the third time Agrale sells chassis to the Arabs.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The Ministry of Agriculture of China plans to send a delegation of Chinese businessmen to the cerrado, the Brazilian savannah, next year. According to agronomist Keming Qian, director general for agricultural trade at the Chinese Ministry, who visited Embrapa Cerrados yesterday (12), he plans to collect information about technologies
