Brazil sold the equivalent to US$ 278.7 million to the region in March. Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen were the main markets. In the accumulated result for the year, shipments totalled US$ 722.4 million, an increase of 5.6% in comparison to the same period in 2005.
Author: Mark Ament
The sector had revenues of US$ 3.9 billion with foreign sales last month. This total is record for months of March. The performance was pushed by sales of soy, sugar, alcohol, paper, cellulose, leather and meats.
Agência Brasil Brasília – Program activities created by the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) reached 40,000 students in private and public schools in the Brazilian capital Brasília in 2005. The objective of the program is to awaken student interest and creativity in the areas of science and technology. According to Ivette Rodrigues, who manages the AEB
Agência Brasil Brasília – Program activities created by the Brazilian Space Agency (AEB) reached 40,000 students in private and public schools in the Brazilian capital Brasília in 2005. The objective of the program is to awaken student interest and creativity in the areas of science and technology. According to Ivette Rodrigues, who manages the AEB
The group of Tunisians who participated in the Fimec, the shoe component sector fair that ended on Saturday (08), were surprised with the quality of the inputs produced in Brazil for production of shoes. Brazilian factories in the sector are scheduling a mission to the Arab country to follow through with the ties established.
In recent years the words creativity and fashion have become popular within Brazilian shoe component industries. Black smooth leather has been loosing ground at Brazilian tanneries to those with textures that imitate trees and have lively flowery prints. The great inspiration for creation is nature.
The annual meeting of the Joint Arab-Foreign Chambers of Commerce ended yesterday in Saudi Arabia. To the secretary general of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, events like this make way for participation in business fairs and trade missions. He suggested greater exchange of information among the institutions located within and outside the Arab world.
Egyptian trading company Akbar Group intends to open, by the end of the year, an exhibition space for Brazilian raw material in Cairo. The company manager, Hesham Akbar, is participating in the Fimec leather and footwear sector fair after potential suppliers for the project.
The president of the leather division of the Cairo Chamber of Commerce, Mohamed Wasfy, is in Brazil to see some of the national machinery for manufacturing shoes. The Egyptians plan on opening a centre to train workforce for the industry. Yesterday Wasfy visited installations of the National Service of Industrial Education in Rio Grande do Sul.
This statement was made yesterday by the minister of Finance of Saudi Arabia, Abdulaziz Al-Assaf, during a meeting with representatives of chambers of commerce, among them the secretary general of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby. Al-Assaf also confirmed his participation in the meeting of Arab and South American ministers of finance to take place in Quito, Ecuador, at the end of the month.
Brazil should start selling components for shoes to the Tunisians after the Fimec, a fair in the leather and shoe sector that takes place in the city of Novo Hamburgo, in southern Brazil, and that includes the presence of four businessmen from the Arab country. This should be one of the results of an agreement for cooperation and closer commercial ties made official yesterday between business organizations from both nations.
The businessman Mustapha Abdelhedi, from Tunisia, started talking yesterday with a Brazilian leather producer about a partnership that involves supplying raw materials and joint exports. Mustapha is in Brazil to participate at the Fimec, fair of components for shoes and leather, which takes place in the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul.
These are the events that will have participation of the Arab Brazilian Chamber. The news this year is Automechanika Gulf, a fair turned to the auto parts sector, to take place in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates. Among the traditional fairs are the Fairs in Algiers and Damascus, which are multisector fairs, Index, of furniture, and Big 5 Show, of construction material.
The secretary general of the League of Arab States discussed the part played by the organization in the development of business relations between Brazil and the countries in the Middle East and North Africa. This was during a meeting of the Joint Arab-Foreign Chambers of Commerce in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Proposals made by the Brazilian institution to expand trade were also well received.
