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Designer Alice Trigueiro, from the city of Fortaleza, already exports to Italy, Portugal, Chile and the United States, and is now negotiating her first purse and costume jewellery sale to the emirate.

In one year, the city of São Paulo went from 33rd to the 8th position in the Global Language Monitor’s ranking of most important cities in the fashion world. Dubai ranks 11th.

The country exported more than one tonne of gold bars to the Emirates in June. Shipments totalled US$ 41 million, US$ 20.1 million of which originated from the state of Minas.

The Arab country imported US$ 19.7 billion in the first half. Exports, on the other hand, totalled US$ 20.7 billion, a 46.5% decrease according to figures supplied by the Algerian Statistics Centre.

The Brazilian debenture market grew 167% in the first half compared with the same period last year. The number of operations rose from 1,757 to 4,687, according to figures supplied by the Andima.