A federal government ruling sets 17.5% rates for Income Tax and fines on sums wired overseas irregularly by Brazilians.
The Summit of South American-Arab Countries will be held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in November. The Arab League asked for the support of the Arab Chamber in talks with the private sector.
The Brazilian balance of trade showed a US$ 544 million surplus last week. Average daily exports and imports increased over August, but declined over September 2014.
According to estimation of financial institutions, Brazil’s GDP should shrink 2.44% in 2015 and 0.5% in 2016. Survey is done weekly by the Brazilian Central Bank and estimations worsened.
Representative of the UAE-based RAK Porcelain in Brazil says that there’s space to expand sales to four and five-star hotels. The company will launch colored line in a fair in the city of São Paulo.
The Brazil-Lebanon Cultural Center will apply the Celpe-Bras test, which attests mastery of the Portuguese language, from April 2016. In October, the organization starts offering a prep course for the exam.
Moema Olival, from Goiás state, releases book in which she analyses how the Arab culture influenced the works of six Brazilian authors of Lebanese descent.
The decline took place in August from a year ago. In August from July of this year, foreign sales of motorcycles increased by 9%.
Jordan’s Chamber of Commerce and Industry wants to send importers to Brazil by next year at the latest. An Arab Brazilian Chamber team discussed joint actions in Amman and will travel to Lebanon and Egypt.
To increase flight frequencies and passenger flow between Brazil and Africa, the company, together with Brazilian tourism institute, should promote trips with tourism agents and journalists.
Manufacturing of cars, light commercial vehicles, trucks and buses dropped last month over August 2014, according to the sector’s association balance sheet.
Number of outlets serving food and selling meats produced following Islamic guidelines grew from ten to 20 over a five-year period in the country, the certifier organization Islamic Center in Brazil has reported.
In Brazil, the Italian processor buys from small to large quantities from suppliers. In the other countries, the minimum established is a container. Family growers want to export.
Conflicts prevent access to the educational system in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan, Turkey, Yemen, Libya, Sudan and Palestine, according to a report by UNICEF. The targeting of schools is one of the causes.

