President Dilma Rousseff signed the ratification of the World Trade Organization trade facilitation agreement in Brasília. The treaty aims to cut red tape and eliminate administrative hurdles.
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Fair will take place on weekends starting April at Rua Oriente, with tents of food, handicrafts, clothing and other typical Arab products. The initiative comes from the National Union of Islamic Entities.
The surplus is the result of USD 3.6 billion in exports and USD 2.3 billion in imports. Shipments of basic goods, semi-finished and finished products all increased.
The auto sector should resume growth in this year’s Q4, according to estimation by Luiz Moan Yabiku Júnior, president of automaker’s national association.
Financial institutions believe in a 3.66% slide for the Brazilian economy this year. Last week’s forecast called for 3.60% shrinkage. The 2017 numbers also declined.
The Qatar’s capital will hold an exhibition and conference on maritime security starting next Tuesday. Around 9,000 visitors from 60 countries are expected to attend.
The new field is located in the western part of the Gulf country. The state-run company is making tests and believes in high economic viability.
The region accounted for 6% of purchases of the company’s products abroad in 2014 and declined to 3% last year. Lower oil prices affected the performance in international markets.
The dollar appreciation and lower income affected the decline in spending in international travelling last month over the same period of 2015, according to data from the Brazilian Central Bank.
The February’s result as measured by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics points to an increase of 2.4 percentage points over the same month in 2015.
It’s the highest number of formal jobs with signed contracts lost in a month since 1992.
A survey by ECLAC shows that more than 2.75 million Brazilians rose above the poverty and extreme poverty lines in 2014.
Alexandre Tombini, president of the Brazilian Central Bank (BC), spoke in the Senate that the BC will not shy away from measures to keep the inflation rate at the target’s center, which is 4.5%, next year.
Despite the surplus from the third week of March, Brazilian exports declined and imports increased in comparison to the month’s first two weeks.
