{"id":201571,"date":"2018-09-25T19:15:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T22:15:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=201571"},"modified":"2019-06-30T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T21:38:33","slug":"entrepreneurs-from-mato-grosso-looking-at-arab-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/entrepreneurs-from-mato-grosso-looking-at-arab-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Entrepreneurs from Mato Grosso looking at Arab market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Nearly 40 business executives attended the lecture by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0CEO Michel Alaby <em>(right in the picture above)\u00a0<\/em>at the Federation of Industries of the State of Mato Grosso (FIEMT), in Cuiab\u00e1, last Friday (21). He discussed trade between Brazil and the Arab countries and shared tips on how to do business with companies in the Middle East and North Africa.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost of them are interested [in the Arab market], since the state [of Mato Grosso] produces cereals and meats,\u201d Alaby told ANBA this Tuesday (25). Poultry, beef, maize and soy are among the main products exported by Brazil to the Arab countries, and Mato Grosso is one of Brazil\u2019s major agricultural hubs.<\/p>\n<p>From January to August of this year, exports from the state to Arab countries totaled nearly USD 600 million, according to the Arab Chamber, with maize, soy beans, bran and oil, beef and poultry making up most of these exports. Mato Grosso accounted for 8.5% of total exports by Brazil to the region in the period.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_201564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-201564\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/jandir2.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-201564 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/jandir2-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/jandir2-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/jandir2-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/jandir2-1024x576.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-201564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Seminar took place at the Federation of Industries of the state<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cMany people came to ask us how to negotiate with the Arab countries,\u201d said Alaby. FIEMT president Jos\u00e9 Milan <em>(center in the picture above)<\/em>\u00a0opened the event.<\/p>\n<p>The seminar was attended by the head of Egypt\u2019s Economic and Commercial Office in S\u00e3o Paulo, Mohamed Elkhatib <em>(left in the picture)<\/em>, who talked about the business environment in his country, the Mercosur-Egypt Free Trade Agreement \u2013 in effect since last year \u2013 and the opportunities for exporting Egyptian products to Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>According to Alaby, they also discussed the possibility of organizing a trade mission from the state to the Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-201563\">Press Release<\/div>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-201564\">Divulga\u00e7\u00e3o<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lecture by Arab Chamber CEO Michel Alaby in Cuiab\u00e1 was attended by nearly 40 executives interested in exporting to the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1454,"featured_media":201563,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[439,421,268,376,5176,12367,5025,566,5030],"class_list":{"0":"post-201571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business-opportunities","8":"tag-arab-chamber","9":"tag-egypt","10":"tag-camara-arabe","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-fiemt","13":"tag-mato-grosso-en","14":"tag-mato-grosso","15":"tag-michel-alaby","16":"tag-mohamed-elkhatib"},"wps_subtitle":"A lecture by Arab Chamber CEO Michel Alaby in Cuiab\u00e1 was attended by nearly 40 executives interested in exporting to the region.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201571","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\/1454"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}