Businessmen participating in the Second Tunisian Business Cycle want to export, but also to import Brazilian products. The sectors range from lighting equipment to leather artefacts, and include the food industry.
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The list of advantages for factory construction in the Arab country was one of the main points of the seminar about industrial cooperation between Brazil and Tunisia that took place today at the Federation of Industries of the state of São Paulo and opened the Second Tunisian Business Cycle.
Elloumi Griyo will be one of the participants in the Second Tunisian Business Cycle, to begin today in the southeastern city of São Paulo, and will include 10 companies from the Arab country and over 50 Brazilian companies. The event opening will be a seminar about industrial cooperation, and there will also be business roundtables and accords will be signed.
Nordine Safer Tabi, an importer and distributor, is interested in business with suppliers of iron and steel bars and wood for constructions. He already imports pipes and connections made by factories Tigre and Tupi.
The first Arab Fest will include attractions open to the public, among them an exhibition of purebred Arabian horses. The event organization, which includes Arab embassies and their representatives, should be visited by foreign buyers.
In 2002, the Emirates were shown as the 12th largest world importer of HS 120929 (Harmonized System) classified seed, the same as the seed traded by Pantanal Trader, from the city of Campo Grande in the state midwestern state of Mato Grosso do Sul.
Brazilian company Sansuy may export technology to a large group in Qatar. The company presidency consultant informed ANBA that the proposal for creation of a joint venture involves all Sansuy products and local government financing.
A Global Monitor study in 31 countries shows that Brazil is now the sixth most entrepreneurial, with a population of 13.5 million people opening new businesses. With this in mind, the Brazilian Support Service to the Small Business (Sebrae) is expanding their Sebrae 2004 Challenge, with the intention of spreading entrepreneurship.
Amazonas, the largest producer of shoe components in Latin America, with offices in Franca, in the countryside of the southeastern state of São Paulo, has already been exporting to Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and the United Arab Emirates for 10 years. This year the company forecasts a growth of over 10% in foreign trade, mainly to the Arab countries.
Reed Exhibitions, which belongs to Anglo-Dutch conglomerate Reed Elsevier, organizes 430 events in 32 countries every year. Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt are some of the hosts.
The Latin American Business Aviation Conference & Exhibition (Labace) is going to take place in São Paulo between April 15 and 17. Over 100 companies are going to exhibit and 3,500 visitors are expected. The sector has a turnover of US$ 300 million per year in the country.
In the last day of the event, another two companies from Saudi Arabia visited the Brazilian stand. One of them got in contact with Sansuy plastics, which already sells to the Arab market and intends to increase trade with the region this year.
The exhibition, which is the largest business event in Egypt, was considered "excellent" by the president of the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Paulo Atallah. For this purpose, in 2005, the CCAB stand at the event will be doubled in size.
The Brazilian Zebu Breeders Association, which has a stand at the 37th Cairo International Fair, is going to export 300,000 heads of cattle per year to Egypt. Two Brazilian companies, Criogen, a producer of tanks and containers for compressed and liquefied gas, and Ataforma, which makes extractors and moulds for ice-cream, both participating in the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (CCAB) stand, have announced good results. The first is negotiating a joint venture with an Egyptian company, and
