Organic Foods and Café is participating in the business roundtables at Biofach, which is taking place in São Paulo. The company plans to increase its purchases by up to US$ 3 million a year.
Fashion fair Who’s Next, in which 12 Brazilian companies took part by means of the Texbrasil program, should generate US$ 995,000 in deals in the coming 12 months. A total of 300 contacts were made.
According to a research by the National Confederation of Transport, the country needs this volume to recover roads in bad conditions. Most are in the North.
The state, which concentrates national production in the sector, sold 264 motorcycles to the Arab country this year. Competition with China and India makes greater sales to the region difficult.
Twenty six Brazilian civil construction companies will attend the Big 5, the Arab world’s leading fair for the industry. Fifteen of them attended a preparatory lecture at the Arab Brazilian Chamber.
Company Nuttra, from the interior of São Paulo, seeks a distributor in the Middle East. In February, it will feature for the second time in the Gulfood fair, in Dubai, so as to promote its products.
An agreement between Petrobras and the Sebrae has already qualified 2,300 Brazilian small companies to supply oil and gas. They are also prepared to operate abroad.
According to Development minister Miguel Jorge, the country should become a construction site over the next five years due to international events to be hosted and to infrastructure investment.
The areas of tourism and port logistics were the two mentioned by the mayor of the city in Greater São Paulo, Luiz Marinho, who opened the Multilateral Relations Forum.
The Brazilian government has reduced the import tax for one of the varieties of tripolyphosphate that the country buys from abroad, from 10% to 2%. Tunisia is one of the suppliers of the product.
If mechanisms for lower carbon emissions through deforestation are inserted in a global agreement to replace Kyoto Protocol, Brazil may have revenues of up to US$ 16 billion.
Starting in 2010, the exclusiveness of Latin fonts in URLs may come to an end with the adoption of Arabic characters and other Asian languages.
Sandra Carvalho, a lawyer, sociologist and director of non-governmental organization Global Justice, won the Annual Human Rights Award granted by Human Rights First (HRF), for her social action.
Mamoun Amri, known as Mamo Marroquino, came to São Paulo to spend a month, but the Brazilian interest in Arab music made him change his plans and establish roots in the country.
