From the Newsroom*<\/STRONG><\/P> S\u00e3o Paulo – Thirty foreign buyers from Latin America, Europe and the Middle East are going to participate in the 24\u00aa edition of the International Trade Fair for Furniture Exports and Sales (Fenavem), which begins today (01) and is going on up to Friday (05), in S\u00e3o Paulo. The presence of importers is part of the Buyer Project, for the incentive to Brazilian exports, organized by the Brazilian Export Promotion Agency (Apex).<\/P> Brazilian furniture exports presented a 19% increase in the first half, in relation to the same period last year. In 2004, the furniture sector exported US$ 940.5 million, representing a 42% increase over the sales of the previous year.<\/P> According to the event organization, the furniture sector includes over 32,000 companies from Brazil, of which 96% are micro and small companies and generate 450,000 jobs. There are currently around 800 Brazilian companies exporting and the sector is responsible for 1% of the country Gross Domestic Product (GDP).<\/P> According to a spokesperson, the event opening ceremony is scheduled for 01:00 pm at the Anhembi Exhibition Pavilion, and it will include the presence of the minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, of the president of the Federation of Industries of the State of S\u00e3o Paulo (Fiesp), Paulo Skaf, and of the president of the Brazilian Furniture Industry Association (Abim\u00f3vel), Domingos Rigoni. The Fenavem is considered the main fair in the furniture sector in Latin America.<\/P> *Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thirty importers from countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are going to participate in the 24th edition of the International Trade Fair for Furniture Exports and Sales (Fenavem). The sector foreign sales had an increase of 19% in the first half, in comparison to the same period last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18217","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business-opportunities"},"wps_subtitle":"Thirty importers from countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East are going to participate in the 24th edition of the International Trade Fair for Furniture Exports and Sales (Fenavem). The sector foreign sales had an increase of 19% in the first half, in comparison to the same period last year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}