Analysts heard by the Central Bank have increased their forecasted growth for the Brazilian economy in 2013, from 3.08% to 3.1%.
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The mission, starting on Thursday (27), is a chance to broaden trade relations between the state and countries in the Middle East and North Africa. The Arab Brazilian Chamber is also participating.
The meeting took place at the home of the ambassador of Oman to Brasília last week. They discussed relations between Brazil and the Arab countries.
Sales from Brasil to the region dropped 3.8% in January this year as against the same period in 2012. The country shipped 106,000 tonnes there last year.
According to Gulfood director Mark Napier, the interest for dishes from the region has grown at the food sector fair to begin on Monday, in Dubai. Brazil will have over 50 exhibitors at the fair.
The event should take place on Sunday (24) in Muskat and should discuss opportunities for the development of an Islamic finance market in the country.
The country only came behind France and Spain as importer of Moroccan products in 2012, according to newspaper La Vie Éco. OCP presence in Brazil was influential.
Purchases of transformed plastic products reached US$ 30 billion in 2012, according to Abiplast. National production dropped 0.43%.
Organized by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade and the Export and Investment Promotion Agency, the delegation took 30 companies to Saudi Arabia and to the Emirates.
The inflow of funds into Brazil’s productive sector totalled US$ US$ 3.7 billion in January, well below the US$ 5.4 billion in the same month in 2012.
Brazilians spent US$ 2.2 billion abroad in January, according to figures disclosed by the Brazilian Central Bank, the highest value in the historic series of the research, which started in 1969.
Hassam Zaki, the new ambassador of the country in Brasília, is spending two days in São Paulo to visit companies in several sectors. Egypt aims to reduce its trade deficit with Brazil.
Maturity of bonds in January should make federal public debt temporarily drop below US$ 1 trillion.
At the food sector fair in Dubai, the companies in the Apex mission to the Middle East plan to close deals with businessmen participating in the roundtables in Jeddah and the Emirates.
