Isaura Daniel*<\/STRONG> S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil has expanded imports of chemical products from the countries in the League of Arab States by 201% in the first four months of this year over the same period last year. Figures by the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (Abiquim) show that the Brazilian market purchased US$ 283.7 million in this kind of product from the Arab world between January and April. In the same months in 2007, purchases totalled US$ 91.4 million. According to the Abiquim, Brazil imports from the Arab world mainly intermediary products for fertilizers.<\/P> The increase in exports from the Arab countries to Brazil was much greater than the growth in sector imports as a whole. The Brazilian market has expanded purchases of chemical products by 36.4% in the first four months of this year over the same period in 2007. Expenses totalled US$ 9 billion with imports of chemical products from January to April this year.<\/P> The chemicals most imported by the country were inputs for fertilizers, with US$ 1.6 billion, followed by medication for human use, with US$ 995.7 million and thermoplastic resin, with US$ 920.3 million. In the month of April alone, there was significant growth in imports \u2013 43.6% \u2013 over the same month in 2007. They reached US$ 2.2 billion. As against March the growth was 17.6%.<\/P> The country also exported chemical sector products to the Arab nations, but sales dropped early this year. They fell from US$ 64.9 million in January to April 2007 to US$ 40.1 million in the same months of 2008. The reduction was 38%. The products sold, also according to the Abiquim, were basically inorganic chemicals. General exports of chemicals from Brazil, however, grew 8.5% in the accumulated result for the year up to April. Exports totalled US$ 3.6 billion, against US$ 3.3 billion up to April 2007.<\/P> The chemical products that Brazil most exported in the four months were thermoplastic resins, with US$ 487.7 million, additives for industrial use, with US$ 303.7 million, and basic chemical products, with US$ 232.2 million. The sector trade balance deficit between January and April reached US$ 5.4 billion, according to the Abiquim. The value is 64.5% greater than that generated in the same period in 2007. Chemical products answered to 18.7% of Brazilian imports in the first four months.<\/P> *Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The country expanded imports of chemical products from the countries of the Arab League by 201% between January and April this year as against the same period in 2007. The value of purchases totalled US$ 283.7 million, according to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27282","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The country expanded imports of chemical products from the countries of the Arab League by 201% between January and April this year as against the same period in 2007. The value of purchases totalled US$ 283.7 million, according to the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27282","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=27282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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