The Brazilian external sales of the product yielded US$ 256.8 million last month, when 231,870 tonnes were shipped abroad. The Middle East continues as the main market in terms of volumes imported.
Author: Silvia Lindsey
The International Trade Fair for Wood Machinery should gather 15,000 businessmen from South America up to next Saturday and generate a turnover of US$ 40 million in business.
Habib, as his clients know him, was born in Lebanon, but has lived in Brazil for three years. Before moving to the country, he lived for three months in one of the palaces of the royal family of Bahrain, where he cared for the hair of a princess. Azzar also took care of the the hair of a Saudi Arabian princess. In Brazil, he works at the Jacques Janine beauty salon.
Habib, as his clients know him, was born in Lebanon, but has lived in Brazil for three years. Before moving to the country, he lived for three months in one of the palaces of the royal family of Bahrain, where he cared for the hair of a princess. Azzar also took care of the the hair of a Saudi Arabian princess. In Brazil, he works at the Jacques Janine beauty salon.
The country shipped the equivalent to US$ 8.789 billion in agriculture and livestock products during the first three months this year. There was an increase in spite of the drought that hit the southern region of the country and caused the loss of crops. Oceania and the Middle East were the regions that increased the most as destinations in the period.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – A Chinese mission will arrive in Brazil on Monday (11) to see the production of ethanol, alcohol extracted from the sugar cane and used as fuel. According to information from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, the Chinese, lead by the engineer Sun Xiaocang, want to learn
According to the ranking of the Forbes magazine, amongst the 2,000 world greatest companies, 44 are Latin American. Of these, 19 are Brazilian. The main ones are oil company Petrobras, the bank Bradesco, the Bank of Brazil, and mining company Vale do Rio Doce.
The company Ecom will increase their current production of 13,000 square metres to 30,000. The company uses typical Brazilian raw materials, such as coconut and chestnut shells and exports 80% of the production. Saudi Arabia, New Zealand, the United States, Portugal, Spain and Italy are amongst the importer countries.
Before the first event actually takes place, which will be in May, an Arab country has already offered to host the second edition. The information was disclosed today by the secretary general of the Arab League, Amr Mussa.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – The third edition of the Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (LABACE) starts this Thursday (31), in São Paulo. The event, which goes until the 2nd of April, will take place in the Congonhas airport, where there will be an aircraft exhibit, and in the Transamerica Expo Centre,
With only a few days before the end of the month, the trade balance result was favourable to Brazil in more than US$ 3 billion, against 2.1 billion in January and US$ 2.7 billion in February.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil established diplomatic with the Comoro islands, an Arab country located in an archipelagos between the east coast of Africa and Madagascar. According to information from the Itamaraty, the Brazilian foreign office, the document was signed by the Brazilian minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, and by the minister

