The business meeting will take place on November 7, in São Paulo, and will be attended by the country’s minister of Investment and International Cooperation, Sahar Nasr, and Mohab Mamish, chairman of the Suez Canal Authority, plus business owners.
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The organization’s new forecast for growth in trade volume in 2018 went from 4.4% to 3.9% in face of the trade war between the United States and China and the volatility in exchange rates.
The period saw USD 5.389 billion worth of goods shipped from Brazil, while imports came out to USD 3.707 billion.
Mohammed Alhayki is leaving Brazil after a near-six-year stint, and the organization offered a farewell dinner. Bilateral trade increased and grew more diverse during his tenure.
The emirate exported USD 544 million and re-exported USD 472 million worth of non-oil goods during the month, while imports reached USD 2.3 billion.
On the eve of the Annual Investment Meeting, in Dubai, the deputy director-general of the World Trade Organization, Yonov Frederick Agah, has said that a trade war and protectionism could undermine the sector’s growth.
That is the assessment made by the secretary-general of the Union of Arab Chambers, Khaled Hanafy, who attended, this week, an economic forum in São Paulo.

