{"id":202563,"date":"2018-10-13T07:00:05","date_gmt":"2018-10-13T10:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=202563"},"modified":"2018-10-16T19:49:05","modified_gmt":"2018-10-16T22:49:05","slug":"syria-offers-trade-and-investment-opportunities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/syria-offers-trade-and-investment-opportunities\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria offers trade and investment opportunities"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0president Rubens Hannun and his adviser on Strategic Affairs, Tamer Mansour, were in Syria from September 15 to 17 as part of a mission to the Levant region, which also included Lebanon and Jordan<\/a>. During the trip, they met with local authorities and businesspersons, in a bid to enhance Brazil-Syria ties and to identify business opportunities. The schedule in Syria was organized by the Arab Chamber’s director\u00a0Sami Roumieh.<\/p>\n

The first meeting was in Syria with the director of the country\u2019s investment promotion agency, Median Ali Diab. \u201cDiab asked us to translate Syria\u2019s investment law into Portuguese and to make it available on the Arab Chamber\u2019s website for Brazilian companies,\u201d said Mansour. The advisor said that no date has been set yet for the translation to go online.<\/p>\n

Mansour said that in a meeting with the minister of Internal Trade and Consumer Protection Abdullah Al Gharbi, the minister suggested an agreement between the minister and the Arab Chamber aiming to promote trade and closer ties between Brazilian and Syrian companies, with a priority to the sugar and beef sectors, since there\u2019s a keen interest in increasing trade of these products from Brazil to Syria.<\/p>\n

The executives also attended a meeting with the minister of Oil and Mineral Resources, Ali Soulaiman Ghanem. \u201cThe minister underscored that Brazil is one of Syria\u2019s friends, [a country] that never closed the embassy in the country, and this was, in fact, the tone taken by all the ministers,\u201d said Mansour. According to the Arab Chamber\u2019s advisor, Ghanem said that this is the moment of reestablishing and resuming oil production in Syria to pre-war levels, and emphasized that are many opportunities for Brazilian companies to take part in bidding rounds in the country, especially in the shale oil sector, and also to companies offering services and expertise in many other areas. Ghanem suggested a cooperation agreement between Syria and Brazil in the training, skills development and research area.<\/p>\n

The minister of Social Affairs and Labor, Rima Kadri, also met the Arab Chamber\u2019s representatives and praised the organization \u2013 she visited the Arab Chamber twice, in 2004 and 2010. \u201cKadri asked us to push for a cooperation agreement for the knowledge sharing in the social and labor areas, since Brazil is considered a reference of labor legislation and social programs such as Minha Casa, Minha Vida,\u201d added Mansour.<\/p>\n

Hannun and Mansour also visited the Damascus International Fair, which, in its 60th<\/sup> edition, had 500,000 visitors in its second-to-last day alone, from over 40 countries. \u201cThe fair broke all records of visitors, area, number of stands, and this shows the interest and trust that Syria is getting from the global market,\u201d said Hannun (pictured above). The Damascus Fairs is considered \u201cthe window to the world of the Syrian economy.\u201d The expo returned in 2017 after a 5 years hiatus caused by the civil war.<\/p>\n

Mansour said that it was possible to sense the importance of the event, and that many business meetings took place. Five Brazilian companies, from such fields as cosmetics (Vitta Gold) and electrical products (Lorenzetti, showers manufacturer), attended the fair, with two of them sending representatives and three with product samples. \u201cThe companies in those two sectors signed deals during the fair; in fact, Vitta Gold, the cosmetics brand, has a local representative with good sales numbers,\u201d said Mansour.<\/p>\n

Check out two more news features on Syria here<\/a> and here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n

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