The sector is expecting sales to the Middle East to be up 10% to 15% in 2013. Thirty nine companies attended a fair in Dubai in late January, and closed US$ 1.5 million worth of deals.
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The throughput in the state’s ports totalled 2.85 million tonnes in January. Most of the export went to maize and sugar.
Terminal in Jebel Ali had a throughput of 219,000 tonnes in 2012. By 2015, Dubai’s two airports should carry a combined 3 million tonnes of cargo.
The countries should sign a phytossanitary agreement to allow trade. The government of Brazil has zeroed the import tariff on the product.
There were 56 mergers and acquisitions of companies in the area in Brazil last year. Over half the business was by foreign companies buying domestic ones.
Funds for financing projects in 2013 will come from the Government Severance Indemnity Fund (FGTS).
According to a United Nations survey, the people are unable to feed properly, are malnourished, or have to sell their possessions to buy food.
The sector had a reduction in the number of work posts last year in 12 of 14 areas researched, according to an IBGE research.
A World Bank database shows that the cost of doing business among lower income nations is higher due to lower logistical quality and the dearth of links to transportation networks.
A UN agency will transfer funds to Syrian people who are currently displaced in Lebanon. The credit will be withdrawn using a magnetic card, in a system similar to Brazil’s Bolsa Família program.
The National Food Supply Company forecasts production of 185 million tonnes of grain in the 2012/2013 cycle. The IBGE, in turn, forecasts a crop of 183.3 million tonnes from January to December 2013.
The free trade treaty was signed in 2010. The ambassador of Egypt to Brasília, Hossameldin Zaki, said that his country is engaged in strengthening trade with the South American bloc.
Exports to the region totalled US$ 14.83 billion. The great stock of food, the European crisis and political problems pushed the drop. Brazilian imports from the Arab rose 11.15%.
Brazil’s Agriculture official Mendes Ribeiro and the Arab diplomat met this Wednesday to discuss trade affairs.
