American Airlines announces the purchase of 460 new jets from the United States-based Boeing and the European Airbus.
This represents Brazil’s total inflow and outflow of foreign currency up to the 15th. In the year, the value is at almost US$ 50 billion.
The number of grants for translation of Brazilian literature abroad rose from an average 23 a year to 68 in the second half of 2010 alone. The National Library Foundation has a new call in the area.
The European Commissioner for Trade said that Brazil will be excluded from the General System of Preferences. If that takes place, the country will lose manufactured product market, say analysts.
Aiming to facilitate the flow of trade, the Brazilian Association of Technical Norms signs agreements with its counterparts in other countries, among them Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
Among the new Italian authors, the Algerian Amara Lakhous is standing out. In his book, he humorously deals with themes like immigration and bias.
According to the head of the Internationalisation Department, Leonardo Botelho, the bank has ‘permanent talks with several institutions’ in the region.
Athletes from 14 countries in North Africa and the Middle East compete for medals in Rio de Janeiro. The Qatari delegation is the largest. The Yemeni one is the smallest.
Taybeh, the only industry of the genre operating in the Palestinian territories, already exports to European countries and to Japan, but wants to expand its business even further.
The Brazilian balance of trade recorded a US$ 880 million surplus in the third week of July. Year-to-date, the surplus is US$ 15.7 billion.
Cristalina, in Goiás, is the land of white quartz crystal. There, artisans are specializing themselves in producing better jewels, costume jewellery and handicraft with the input, and winning markets.
Rio de Janeiro-based company Lemnos Metais will invest US$ 20.8 million in a processing unit for recyclable aluminium, copper and plastic residue in the city of Sarzedo, in the state of Minas Gerais.
In a country with no filmmaking tradition, director Bushra Al Eidy shows that the coming together of young Saudis and Brazilians makes for a good script and turns an exchange trip into a documentary.
The Arab country recorded the third highest growth rate among the leading targets of Brazilian shoe exports in the first half. Saudi Arabia recorded the fourth largest increase.
