{"id":413951,"date":"2026-07-08T15:43:03","date_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=413951"},"modified":"2026-07-08T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-08T18:43:13","slug":"invest-minas-arab-brazilian-chamber-discuss-ties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/invest-minas-arab-brazilian-chamber-discuss-ties\/","title":{"rendered":"Invest Minas, Arab-Brazilian Chamber discuss ties"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Representatives of <a href=\"https:\/\/investminas.mg.gov.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Invest Minas<\/a>, the investment and foreign trade promotion agency of Brazil\u2019s southeastern state of Minas Gerais, met on Wednesday (8) with <strong>Arab-Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/strong> (<a href=\"https:\/\/ccab.org.br\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABCC<\/a>) President William Adib Dib Jr. and Treasurer Mohamad Abdouni Neto at the ABCC\u2019s headquarters in S\u00e3o Paulo. The meeting focused on cooperation and ways to attract investment for companies in the state.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Attending the meeting on behalf of Invest Minas were Investment Attraction Director Elvis Gaia, Investment Promotion Manager Breno Sardenberg, and Strategic Advisor Igor Vilela. Representing the ABCC were Institutional Relations Advisor Bassel Abou Latif and Market Intelligence Manager Marcus Vinicius, who presented data on trade between Minas Gerais and Arab countries. According to Vinicius, trade is concentrated in a limited number of products, leaving room to expand and diversify the trade basket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 2025, Minas Gerais exported USD 3.09 billion worth of goods to Arab countries, down 10.6% from 2024. Imports totaled USD 446.7 million, up 51.4% over the same period. The state&#8217;s main exports to Arab countries were iron ore, sugar, iron pipes and tubes, and coffee. Its main imports were nitrogen fertilizers, sulfur, mixed fertilizers, and phosphate fertilizers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dib presented the ABCC\u2019s initiatives, including the Brazil &amp; Arab Countries Economic Forum, which will be held on August 25 in S\u00e3o Paulo, and said the institution could support Invest Minas in future projects involving the Arab world. Abdouni invited Invest Minas to take part in the event, which promotes mutual opportunities for knowledge exchange and future investment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Invest Minas is expected to organize a visit to the United Arab Emirates in September this year. Its representatives spoke about Arab investments already present in the state and expressed their intention to attract investment from Arab sovereign wealth funds to companies in Minas Gerais.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Read more<\/em>:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-government-adds-ocp-fertilizer-project\/\">Brazil\u2019s government adds OCP fertilizer project<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-413954\">Marcos Carrieri\/ANBA<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delegation from the Minas Gerais Investment and Foreign Trade Promotion Agency visited the Arab-Brazilian Chamber to discuss ways to expand exports and investment from Arab countries in the southeastern state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2317,"featured_media":413954,"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":[46537],"tags":[48478,9583,9561,57397,10014,9579],"class_list":{"0":"post-413951","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arab-brazilian-chamber","8":"tag-arab-brazilian-chamber-of-commerce-2","9":"tag-arabs-en","10":"tag-exports-en","11":"tag-invest-minas","12":"tag-investment-en","13":"tag-uae-en"},"wps_subtitle":"A delegation from the Minas Gerais Investment and Foreign Trade Promotion Agency visited the Arab-Brazilian Chamber to discuss ways to expand exports and investment from Arab countries in the southeastern state.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413951","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=413951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413958,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/413951\/revisions\/413958"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/413954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=413951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=413951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=413951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}