Exports to the region reached USD 967 million last year, the Brazilian mining company reported. Vale bounced back from its 2015 loss to post a profit of USD 3.982 billion.
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The rate of locally-made equipment and services will be reduced by 50% in oil and gas drilling tenders.
Foreign sales of capital goods from Brazil reached USD 446 million in January, a decline of 12% compared with January of last year.
A USD 1.249 billion surplus was recorded in the third week of February, with exports reaching USD 4.274 billion and imports amounting to USD 3.025 billion.
The Brazilian federal government will create rules in a bid to attract international capital into the oil refinement market, currently near single-handedly dominated by state-run company Petrobras.
The domestic and foreign debt dropped to BRL 3.05 trillion in January from December, according to numbers from Brazil’s National Treasury Secretariat.
The Executive arm of the Doha-based carrier is looking for women with at least five years’ experience working at international airlines. Fluent English is required and the maximum age is 35.
Colonel Sylvio Pessoa will discuss logistics in connection with the environment at the Holy Spirit University of Kaslik next Monday (20), in an open-to-the-public event.
USD 11.5 billion were invested in Brazil’s productive sector last month, the highest amount for a January since the Brazilian Central Bank began keeping records, in 1995.
Consumption during trips to other countries reached USD 1.5 billion in January, the Central Bank reported. In January of last year, expenditure had reached USD 840 million.
The slumping economy led to a 4.5% decline in oil products consumption last year in the country. In 2015 from 2014, consumption had also gone down, but not at as sharp a rate.
Pellets production in quarter four last year was the biggest ever at the Brazilian company’s manufacturing plant in Sohar, at 2.5 million tons.
Octavio de Barros claims the country should be more welcoming of international products and focus on bilateral and regional agreements. He spoke during an event at the Arab Chamber this Wednesday (15).
Cargo volume handled in Brazil in 2016 was slightly down from the year before as a result of the maize crop failure, according to data from the National Agency for Waterway Transportation (Antaq).

