{"id":375153,"date":"2024-09-30T09:54:10","date_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=375153"},"modified":"2024-09-30T09:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:54:16","slug":"qatars-ambassador-visits-arab-brazilian-chamber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatars-ambassador-visits-arab-brazilian-chamber\/","title":{"rendered":"Qatar\u2019s ambassador visits Arab-Brazilian Chamber"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Qatari ambassador to Brazil, Ahmad Mohammed Ali Mohamed Alshebani, met on Sep. 26 with <strong>Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (ABCC) President Osmar Chohfi and Secretary-General and Vice President of International Relations Mohamad Mourad at the <a href=\"https:\/\/ccab.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">institution<\/a>\u2019s headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo. This was his first visit since taking over the Arab country\u2019s embassy in Bras\u00edlia in August 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-large is-resized\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-1024x768.jpeg\" alt=\"The meeting was held at the ABCC\u2019s headquarter in S\u00e3o Paulo\" class=\"wp-image-375012\" style=\"width:376px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-1024x768.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-600x450.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-150x113.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-768x576.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-450x338.jpeg 450w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41-1200x900.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/anba.com.br\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2024-09-27-at-10.41.41.jpeg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">The meeting was held at the ABCC\u2019s headquarter in S\u00e3o Paulo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Chohfi, Mourad and Alshebani discussed the commercial potential that can be explored between the two countries. In 2023, Brazil exported USD 363.9 million to Qatar, which sent USD 698.5 million worth of goods to Brazil. Brazil\u2019s main exports were chicken meat, iron ore, welded pipes, and oil. Qatar, in turn, primarily sent fertilizers and petroleum oils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While presenting the commercial ties between the two countries and commenting on Brazilian companies with a presence in the Gulf country, the ABCC\u2019s director of institutional relations, Fernanda Baltazar, noted that the companies are from diverse sectors of the economy, such as iron ore producer Vale and meat producers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Possibilities for more business with Qatar<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Alshebani said that companies from his country are interested in doing business with Brazil and that this opportunity needs to be explored. Chohfi said that the institution\u2019s goal is to help promote trade exchanges between the two countries. He mentioned the possibility of holding a Brazil-Qatar seminar in 2025 to connect companies and government representatives from both nations. In addition to exports and imports, both agreed that mutual investments can and should be explored.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, Chohfi, Mourad and Baltazar presented Alshebani with the EasyTrade digital certification system for export documents. Through this platform, exporters can obtain product certification for export more quickly, traceably and sustainably, as the process does not require the issuance of physical documents. Chohfi mentioned there is an opportunity to adopt this system for exports to Qatar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>During the meeting, the promotion of culture was also discussed, with the ABCC aiming to eventually establish a physical version of its virtual project, Arab House, an environment dedicated to promoting Arab arts, cuisine, and identity in Brazil. The meeting was attended by the ABCC\u2019s institutional relations advisor, Bassel Abou Latif, and the consular advisor of the Embassy of Qatar in Bras\u00edlia, Ahmed Abdelkareem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatar-makes-progress-in-establishing-green-economy\/\">Qatar makes progress in establishing green economy<\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/qatars-industrial-production-rises-by-6\/\">Qatar\u2019s industrial production rises by 6%<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-375017\">Marcos Carrieri<\/div><div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-375012\">Marcos Carrieri\/ANBA<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ahmad Mohammed Ali Mohamed Alshebani meets with the institution\u2019s president, Osmar Chohfi, and secretary-general, Mohamad Mourad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":375017,"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":[106,114],"tags":[2075,16342,48478,9534,50384,40999,12328,9561,2929,23871,37596,9598,44168],"class_list":{"0":"post-375153","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-foreign-affairs","8":"category-news","9":"tag-ambassadors","10":"tag-arab-house","11":"tag-arab-brazilian-chamber-of-commerce-2","12":"tag-brazil-en","13":"tag-business-2","14":"tag-embaixador-en-2","15":"tag-embraer-en","16":"tag-exports-en","17":"tag-meats","18":"tag-negocios-en","19":"tag-proteina-animal-en-2","20":"tag-qatar-en","21":"tag-vale-en-2"},"wps_subtitle":"Ahmad Mohammed Ali Mohamed Alshebani meets with the institution\u2019s president, Osmar Chohfi, and secretary-general, Mohamad Mourad.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375153","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\/2317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=375153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375153\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}