Tag: Paulo Skaf

• Thursday, September 10th 2015 - 08:50 UTC

  Business lobbies feeling the pinch, impatient with Rousseff's budget cuts

  

  After months of trying to shore up Brazil's public finances, President Dilma Rousseff now faces political and business pressure to ease up on painful austerity measures in a country long hooked on the helping hand of a big state.

• Wednesday, May 9th 2012 - 08:15 UTC

  Brazil ready to boost trade with Argentina but demands “compromise” on lowering barriers

  

  The potential to treble imports from Argentina in a few years was underlined by Brazilian manufacturers but there must be a “compromise of reciprocity” to lower trade barriers since currently “we known they are higher on the Argentine side”.

• Tuesday, February 14th 2012 - 20:43 UTC

  Brazil willing to wait to see how latest Argentine trade restrictions evolve

  

  Brazil’s private sector said it would grant Argentina a “confidence vote” and would wait until the end of February before assessing the consequence of the new import restrictions imposed by the government of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Wednesday, February 8th 2012 - 06:17 UTC

  Argentina and Brazil want corporations to reinvest and not send profits overseas

  

  President Cristina Fernandez hopes to convince Brazil to join Argentina in its campaign against the multinational corporations in an effort to balance trade balances in the midst of the global crisis spurred by the Euro crisis, China’s slow reaction and the US economy which still has to recover from the full impact of the 2008/09 recession.

• Monday, January 30th 2012 - 21:11 UTC

  For Brazil Argentina is a “good problem”, no longer a “permanent problem”

  

  Argentina is “a good problem” for Brazil, said President Dilma Rousseff’s Foreign policy advisor Marco Aurelio Garcia ahead of another trade dispute when Argentina begins applying a new imports’ scheme that has been equally criticized by local and Brazilian manufacturers.

• Wednesday, August 3rd 2011 - 00:31 UTC

  Brazil announces 16bn dollars plan to prop industry and weaken the Super Real

  

  A package of tax breaks and incentives unveiled Tuesday by Brazilian president Dilma Rousseff represent a good start to help local companies overcome competitive challenges presented by adverse local and global economic factors, but still fall short of what's needed, Brazilian industrial leaders said.