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This information was supplied by the director of the commercial promotion department of the Brazilian Foreign Office (Itamaraty), Mario Vilalva, who was in Cairo to promote the meetings. Around 15 businessmen from Egypt, representing sectors like commodities, cement and electric equipment are going. The Brazil-Egypt Business Council wants trade between both countries to reach US$ 1 billion up to 2010.

Castor sells dresses and skirt and blouse sets to luxury stores in Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Lebanon, Kuwait and Qatar. The company produces around 3,500 products a month and exports half of its production of feminine clothes. The products are made out of cotton and acrylic threads and are ornamented with embroidery and stamping.

Agência Brasil Brasília – The Ministry of Transportation will immediately employ on road restoration US$581 million (R$1.5 billion) of the total of US$1.6 billion (R$4.2 billion) that the government must release until August. The Minister of Transportation, Alfredo Pereira do Nascimento, affirmed "This means the return of investments on roads in Brazil and the generation

On the 9th, 10th and 11th of May, the Ulysses Guimarães Convention Centre, in Brazilian capital Brasília, is going to receive businessmen for commercial events to take place in parallel to the summit between Arab and South American countries. There will be seminars, an investment fair, and there will also be space for business meetings. Registration for participation is free and may be done on site BrazilTradeNet.

The Lebanese are the main importers of the footwear produced by Sandálias 755, a small company in the city of Arapiraca, in the northeastern Brazilian state of Alagoas. The company makes male and female sandals and exports them to Spain, the Dominican Republic, Portugal and the United States. Part of the shoes is made out of PVC collected by poor people at sanitary dumps in the region, which is made into soles.

Agência Brasil Brasília – Brazil and the region of Catalonia (Spain) will exchange information about investments that may help potential Brazilian and Catalan investors in their international businesses decision-making process. A Memorandum of Understanding on the exchange of economic data was signed in Barcelona (Spain), this Thursday (14), by Brazil’s Minister of Development, Industry and

Polenghi, the Brazilian branch of the French Bongrain group, is selling its Polenguinho cheese to Iraq. Exports began in mid 2004 and continued strong in the first months of this year. The company has already even provided new packages for the products, with information in Arabic.

Company Anantha, from the state of São Paulo, started exporting to Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait in the second half of last year and is now also negotiating entry in Algeria and Lebanon. Anantha produces perfumes and cosmetics from typically Brazilian essences, such as coffee, orange and passion fruit with chocolate extracts.

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

Company Kepler Weber, from the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, has just signed a US$ 1.44 million contract with company Middle East Factories Vegetable Oil Co., that belongs to Syrian group Akharas. The Brazilian company is going to build four silos in the city of Homs, with a capacity for storage of 10,000 tonnes of grain each. The equipment should be shipped between July and August.