Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva stated that the country is in a comfortable position after the population started to increase its consumption, in December 2008.
The US$ 4 million deficit was the result of exports of US$ 3.212 billion and imports of US$ 3.216 billion, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
In 2009 alone, the state of Paraná exported almost 900,000 tonnes to the region, generating revenues of over US$ 1 billion. The Middle East is the main foreign destination for Paraná state chicken.
In the next two years, the Brazilian company has firm orders for E-Jets from airlines in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Oman. In the Middle East, there already are 35 commercial aircraft in operation.
The Brazilian foreign minister will travel to the Arab country on the 27th and 28th. According to foreign office information, he will address international matters of interest to both countries.
The Brazilian Vanessa Araújo, nominated for the Unctad’s Empretec Women in Business Award, has exported her coffee cosmetics to the Netherlands and Portugal. Now, she is prospecting the Middle East.
Petrobras Biofuel has fully mastered the technology for producing biodiesel from castor seeds. It is made with 30% castor oil and 70% sunflower oil.
Next Tuesday, cultural centre Casa das Rosas will promote the Middle Eastern Poetry Evening. Classical and contemporary poems from the region will be read.
The Arab country imported 3,000 tonnes of maize oil from Brazil in November. The product was sold unprocessed, and the state responsible for the sales was São Paulo.
From 2005 to 2008, roughly 56 million people aged 10 or over had access to the internet. The survey was disclosed today by the Brazilian Institute for Geography and Statistics.
The first draft of an agreement at the World Climate Conference, in Copenhagen, preserves commitments made by countries in the Kyoto Protocol, but should also include targets for the United States.
The company is specialized in bodies and semi-trailers for agro industrial equipment and should have representation in North Africa. There are expectations regarding sales of water tankers to Iraq.
Arab Brazilian Chamber chairman Salim Schahin said today that the organisation is working on expanding the interest of Middle Eastern investors in the country, especially in infrastructure.
Finance minister Guido Mantega said the discrepancy between growth of the GDP and the forecast by the economic team is due to a change in methodology used by the IBGE, which calculates the figure.
