São Paulo – Ten International Relations students from the Faculdades Metropolitanas Unidas (FMU) university visited the headquarters of the Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) in São Paulo on Tuesday (7). The female students who participated in the visit are in the second to eighth semesters and members of the Institutional Council of International Relations Students of FMU (CIERI). They got to know the company’s departments (pictured above) and participated in a meeting with the president of the institution, ambassador Osmar Chohfi, and the Marketing & Communication vice president, Silvia Antibas.
Chohfi and the Institutional Relations director, Fernanda Baltazar, presented them with the highlights of the commercial relationship between Brazil and the Arab countries. The trade balance reached over USD 32 billion in 2022, and there are business opportunities in sectors such as construction, clean energy, sustainable development, and halal products (made according to the laws of Islam).
“One of our goals is to diversify what Brazil sells to the Arabs and what the Arabs sell to us and [trade] more products with added value,” said Chohfi about the need to expand the trade basket, currently concentrated in commodities. “Another objective of ours is to encourage more Brazilian exporters, training small and medium-sized companies,” he added. The FMU group also included the professor of International Relations, Foreign Trade, Logistics, and Social Sciences, Thiago Felix Mattioli.
Translated by Elúsio Brasileiro
