Over 100 importers, including ones hailing from five Arab countries, confirmed attendance for the shoes and accessories exhibition set to happen in November in Gramado, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
The event will be held by the United Nations’ World Tourism Organization and the Egyptian government on November 1 and 2.
The Leading Economic Index (IACE) rose 1.3% in September over August. It anticipates the economy’s trend in the short term. It was the eighth consecutive increase.
This is the cost estimate made by UNHCR for relief assistance in cold weather to 4.57 million Syrians and Iraqis displaced in their own countries or living as refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Egypt.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Itamaraty) announced it will provide the amount to the UN’s World Food Programme to support Haiti after it was hit by a hurricane.
The visual artist Ivana Panizzi will hold an exhibition of her new paintings in Amman from October 19 to November 20. The abstract pictures were inspired by the local nature.
Survey done by the local Chamber of Commerce and Industry points to an average growth of 4.7% in the next four years.
Items including maize, cotton, rice, cocoa, oranges and tomatoes are expected to drive a drop in Brazilian crops’ value in 2016 over last year, but the result will still be the third best since 1989.
Brazilian foreign trade is on a streak of back-to-back surpluses. Last week saw exports exceed imports by USD 662 million.
Financial institutions polled by the Brazilian Central Bank believe the benchmark rate will be slashed following a meeting this week. The rate is seen ending this year at 13.5% and the next one at 11%.
It will promote products from its members at the International Exhibition for Agricultural Investment and Technologies, from October 19 to 22. The Chamber’s participation is a partnership with a Tunisian agency.
The event happens on November 3 and 4 in Foz do Iguaçu. Specialists will cover topics including partnerships, financing, technology transfer and management. Registrations are open.
The power plant’s Engineering superintendent Jorge Habib Hanna El Khouri said a basic draft should be completed in a year and a half. Arab ambassadors on a mission to Paraná state toured the facilities.
The country sold 3,889 units abroad from January to September, generating USD 334,000 in revenues.
