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The food, leather and shoe sectors should receive special attention from the Brazil-Tunisia Business Council in 2007. This was one of the matters discussed between the marketing vice president at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Rubens Hannun, and group representatives in Tunisia last month.

Foreign purchases of food have a turnover of around US$ 5 billion a year. To the secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby, who is in Tripoli, this is one of the sectors that presents the greatest business potential in the Arab country for Brazilian companies.

After a talk by the secretary general of the Arab Brazilian Chamber, Michel Alaby, yesterday at Vale do Rio Sinos University (Unisinos), businessmen from the shoe sector sought Alaby for further information. The talk was part of the 4th edition of the Regional Foreign Trade Meeting, promoted by Unisinos and by the Bank of Brazil.

The 26th edition of the National Conference on Foreign Trade will take place today and tomorrow in Rio de Janeiro. The reduction of bureaucracy, financing, investment, logistics and service exports are some of the subjects to be discussed. The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce will have a stand to show the potential of the Arab countries.

The amount corresponds to contracts renewed by Brazilian leather and shoe component factories that participated in Meet in Africa. The trade show, turned to the leather and shoe sector, started on Saturday (25) and ended at the beginning of this week in the capital city of Egypt. The Brazilian participation was organised by the Brazilian Association of Shoe and Leather Components Industries and the Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency.

The Arab country is after suppliers and investors for the development of the areas of infrastructure and energy. For this purpose, fair Project Libya 2006 will be promoted in Tripoli between December 4 and 7. The event will count on the participation of the secretary general at the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce, Michel Alaby.

Three years ago, Luana Soares created beachwear brand Flor de Menta (Mint Flower), in the southernmost Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul, and now she is betting on the Arab market. The businesswoman has already shipped 400 pieces to Egypt, and is currently negotiating with an importer from the United Arab Emirates.

The National Craftsmanship Fair, which will kick off tomorrow in the southeastern Brazilian state of Minas Gerais, will feature importers from 30 European, African and Asian countries, as well as the United States. Overall, 8,000 exhibitors are going to participate, and 200,000 visitors are expected to attend.

The products made by Fame, an industry from the state of São Paulo, southeastern Brazil, are shipped to Egypt disassembled, where they are finished by Lotas, an Egyptian company that has operations in Brazil. Products from there are distributed to another five countries in the region. The company is working on spreading the culture of electric showers in the Arab market, which tends to use gas.