Agência Brasil São Paulo – Industrial production in São Paulo rose 2.95% in May, compared to April. It was up 4.4%, compared to May 2004, and up 4.7% for the year. The numbers are from a survey by the Federation of Industries of the State of São Paulo (Fiesp). In the Food and Beverages sector,
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The institution is going to open a unit in the United Arab Emirates in the near future. According to the foreign trade director of the Bank of Brazil, José Maria Rabelo, the office, which will operate throughout the Arab world, will help prospect new business for Brazilian companies in the region and will work to attract funds to Brazil.
Last Monday the company shipped a total of 112 pieces of furniture for hospital rooms, two surgical beds, and three gurneys to the Arab country. Mercedes Imec, a producer of hospital furniture from the city of São Paulo, also sells to Lebanon, Egypt and Morocco, in the region. The four countries answer to 20% of company exports.
Agência Brasil Bogotá – Minister of Foreign Relations, Celso Amorim, speaking to an audience of some 150 Brazilian and Colombian businessmen, declared that the way to strengthen Mercosur was to invest in South America in order to achieve a balance between exports and imports. Amorim spoke at the II Brazil-Colombia Business Conference. "In this way
The growth was pushed by the sales of naphtha for the petrochemical industry, which totalled US$ 42 million between January and May this year. The Moroccans had revenues of US$ 123.9 million from trade with Brazil in the period, against US$ 69.2 million in the first five months of 2004.
From the Newsroom* São Paulo – Brazil has approved, in the last six months, projects to permit Brazilian exports of goods and services for the value of US$ 1.6 billion. The data was provided by the Committee for Financing and Guarantee of Exports (Cofig), which is coordinated by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign
Agência Brasil São Paulo – Imports from China have risen an average 57% in general, and up to 70% in some sectors this year, reports the executive secretary of the Ministry of Development, Ivan Ramalho. Responding to complaints from the Brazilian industrial sector, especially textiles, the government is reportedly about to impose safeguards on imports
Heimer, based in the northeastern Brazilian state of Pernambuco, had revenues of US$ 31.6 million in 2004 and already exports to over 50 countries, among them Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Yemen. Arab importers are large public companies, hospitals and industries.
