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The construction of a highway corridor connecting the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean is going to simplify the transfer of agricultural production and make possible the growth of exports...

Companies from Brazil that participate in Brazilian Export and Investment Promotion Agency (Apex-Brasil) projects had growth of 27.5% in their exports from January to May this year when compared...

Olive oil consumption in Brazil has been growing continuously over the last three years  -  although it is still small when compared to other countries. Brazilians currently consume around...

Brazil's aircraft maker Embraer, is going to train Egyptian organization EgyptAir Maintenance Engineering in aircraft part repair. The training should enable EgyptAir to repair Embraer aircraft components...

Imports of thermoplastic resins by Brazil grew 60.7% in the first half this year, in comparison with the same months of 2007, having totaled 521,700 tons, according to data...

Brazil's agricultural sector recorded the highest job generation rate in June 2008 in the country, according to data from the General Records Office for Employment and Unemployment (Caged), disclosed...

Twelve Brazilian designers won the most important prize for the segment in the world, the International Design Excellence Award (IDEA),  as it was announced last week in Washington, United...

Portugal's airline, TAP, is going to inaugurate, on October 27, a flight between Lisbon and Casablanca, in Morocco. Apart from being one more option for Europeans to travel to...

Brazilian company Soprano, a maker of metals and hydraulic equipment from the state of Rio Grande do Sul, southern Brazil, is going to open a distribution center in Hamryia,...

The central bank of Brazil raised interest rates by 0.75% to 13% on Wednesday, July 23, lifting borrowing costs for the third time in four months in a bid...

High prices for soy and corn are spurring Brazilian farmers to plant more and the Brazilian fertilizer industry is expecting a record volume sales year. Fertilizers high cost, however,...

Melissa, the most popular sandal in Brazil,  will be speaking Arabic once again. In 2005, Egyptian designer Karim Rashid came to Brazil to launch his version of...

For five days, from July 28 to August 1st, the city of Curitiba, the capital of the Brazilian southern state of Paraná, is going to turn into an important...

Lively colors, strong lines and joyous expressions characterize the paintings of Brazilian artist Luiz Cavalli, who is planning to exhibit in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates, next year....

Brazilian companies invested 7.4% of their net revenues in the first quarter of this year. According to a study by credit analysis organization Serasa, the index represents the expansion...

The Brazilian Association of Shopping Centers (Abrasce) announced that it is going to take Brazilian shopping mall know how abroad. According to the organization, its president, Marcelo Carvalho, is...

The Brazilian balance of trade is running a surplus (exports minus imports) of US$ 13,339 billion up until the third week this month, 41.8% lower than recorded in the...

The United States says it is ready to cut its trade-distorting farm subsidies to US$ 15 billion a year in a bid to reach a global trade deal that...

Ministerial negotiations on global trade's first day, at this week's meeting in Geneva of the Trade Negotiations Committee, brought conflicting opinions about prospects for an agreement.

Brazil and Colombia agreed on a cooperation and defense agreement aimed at controlling the one thousand mile lawless common border which is regularly used by drugs and arms dealers...

The EU (European Union) has offered to cut its farm tariffs by 60% to kick-start trade talks in Geneva. EU trade commissioner Peter Mandelson urged Brazil, India and China...

An idea which involved a fantastic but frustrated will power. That's the way former Spanish Socialist president Felipe Gonzalez describes Mercosur, the South American common market. A...

Gay couples are rejoicing in California, where they have recently obtained the right to marry, but in other parts of the Western Hemisphere, same-sex partnership-recognition is more of a...

Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva and Alvaro Uribe, the presidents of Brazil and Colombia, respectively, vowed Saturday, July 19, to boost trade and investment between their nations ahead of...

South American integration is advancing fast and with our own resources, said Brazilian president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva on Friday, July 18,  during a regional summit...

Baby penguins, hundreds of them, swept from the icy shores of Antarctica and the South Atlantic are washing up dead on Rio de Janeiro tropical beaches, rescuers and penguin...

Offshore oil workers from Brazil's oil multinational Petrobras have ended a five-day walkout but warned they may call a new, nationwide strike against the state-controlled company next month. Petrobras...

Brazil and Colombia will be signing this weekend a defense agreement by which the two South American countries will share military information, technology, training, intelligence, weapons procurement and joint...

Brazil's Foreign Affairs Minister, Celso Amorim, said that developed nations' agricultural subsidies and tariff barriers for farm goods remain the biggest obstacle to an agreement on the long-stalled Doha...

Brazilian oil government controlled multinational Petrobras announced on Tuesday that total production (domestic and abroad) in June reached a record of 2.412.155 barrels of oil equivalent per day, boed,...