Tag: Brazil

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 14:03 UTC

  Brazil tightens requirements for car imports: Argentina and Asia targeted

  

  Brazil is tightening requirements for imports of cars in a move that sparked complaints from Argentina, its biggest supplier of the product. Imports to Brazil will need a special license that can take as long as 60 days to be approved, the Trade Ministry said in an e-mailed statement.

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 13:55 UTC

  Brazilian president still recovering from pneumonia cancels trip to Paraguay

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff cancelled on medical advice Sunday’s trip to Asunción where she was scheduled to participate in the bicentennial celebrations of Paraguay’s independence.

• Friday, May 13th 2011 - 04:49 UTC

  Brazil warns Argentina about restrictions to bilateral trade

  

  Brazil’s Commerce and Industry minister Fernando Pimentel called on the Argentine government to de-activate restrictions on Brazilian exports and revealed he had addressed a letter to his Argentine peer Debora Giorgi exposing restrictions on bilateral trade and demanding a reply this coming week end.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 22:18 UTC

  Mercosur institutionalization and image lifting, High Commissioner targets

  

  Institutionalization of Mercosur and changing its public opinion image are the main issues Brazil’s Samuel Pinheiro Guimaraes plans to address, at his new post of Mercosur High Representative-General since February.

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 18:32 UTC

  Brazilian president promises land reform and distribution for family settlers

  

  Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff claimed that land reform was needed to eradicate poverty, avoid overcrowding in urban areas and as a matter of justice for the long delayed distribution of land.“

• Thursday, May 12th 2011 - 06:32 UTC

  BP ups its stake in Brazil’s oil industry and will participate in September’s round

  

  British Petroleum is negotiating opportunities to buy stakes in oil fields in Brazil to accelerate production increases, the head of the company's Brazil division said on Wednesday.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 07:46 UTC

  Brazil’s oil giant Petrobras the most valuable brand in Latin America

  

  Brazil’s oil and gas corporation Petrobras was ranked first in a new listing of the most valuable brands in Latin America, with an estimated brand value of 13.4 billion US dollars.

• Wednesday, May 11th 2011 - 01:30 UTC

  Brazil expects a new record crop totalling 158.7 million tons

  

  Brazil will harvest this year a record crop of 158.7 million tons, 6% higher than last year’s 149.7 million tons, according to the latest release from the country’s Geography and Statistics Institute, IBGE.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 22:45 UTC

  Good soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, could total 123 million tons

  

  Soybean crop prospects in Brazil and Argentina, the second- and third-biggest exporters of the oilseed behind the U.S., have improved, researcher Oil World said in a report Tuesday. Growers in Brazil will produce 73 million metric tons of soybeans, up from a record 68.7 million tons a year ago, and farmers in Argentina will harvest 49.5 million tons, up 1% from a prior estimate.

• Tuesday, May 10th 2011 - 09:55 UTC

  Brazil considering leasing farm land to foreigners to circumvent sales restrictions

  

  Brazil may start leasing farm land to foreigners to find a way around new legal restrictions on land sales and attract more foreign investment, the agriculture minister said.