A decision of the Foreign Trade Board has lifted the tax from October this year until May 2011, for up to 250,000 tonnes of the product.
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The minister of Industry of the African country, Awad Al-Jaz, will be in São Paulo and Brasília next week. The main objective is to discuss partnerships in seven sugar and ethanol industry projects.
The Brazilian minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Miguel Jorge, should head a delegation to the Arab nations this week. This will be his third mission to the region.
Apex and the Siamfesp launched, in São Paulo, brand Metal Brasil, to help the non-ferrous metal sector to stand out abroad. The Arab market is among the project targets.
During a seminar held this Monday, the state’s Federation of Industries launched a trade mission to the Arab country, due November. The trip will be geared towards construction companies.
The furniture company based in the Rio Grande do Sul state shipped a 40-foot container to a storeowner in Riyadh last week. Negotiations started at Index, an industry fair held in Dubai in November.
Shoe company has already shipped several orders to the Arab world, and now it wants to sell significant volumes to the region again. Myrabel hopes to deal with Arabs at Italian fair Micam this month.
The Brazilian female shoe brand has eleven of its own shops in Arab countries and a project for brand expansion in the region up to 2013. In Dubai alone there are five franchises.
Food Ingredients South America, a fair to take place from the September 21st to 23rd, in São Paulo, should receive 250 exhibitors in 20 countries, among them two from Egypt and two from Palestine.
Cocamar wants to export its orange oils to the Middle East. The product, which is much used as a perfume fixer, is already sold to Europe, China and North America.
Vive Bella produces decorations for clothes, shoes and handbags. It has already exported to Lebanon and the Emirates and believes it may grow on the Middle Eastern market.
According to the head of the Intercontinental Bank of Lebanon in São Paulo, Roland Fouad Aboukhater, the Arabs are interested in partnerships in the real estate, industrial and financial sectors.
The idea was discussed during a seminar on Wednesday in Porto Alegre. The secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, gave a talk about the markets in the region.
Importers from Oman and the United Arab Emirates are going to participate in Fruit&Tech, from September 27 to 29, in São Paulo. The fair should include roundtables with buyers from eight countries.
