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04 June 2020

UNCTAD Expects Brazilian Exports to China to Hold Despite General Downward Trend
Acording to the United Nations Agency for Trade and Development (UNCTAD), Brazil will be able to maintain its levels of exports to the world's second largest economy, but only if it able to avoid disruptions to its agricultural production.
03 June 2020

Brazil´s Vale to Keep Iron Ore Supply Levels to China in 2020
Vale, Brazil´s biggest mining group, will sell China this year a volume of iron ore equal to or greater than that of 2019, according to Marcello Spinelli, executive director of ferrous metals at the mining company. 
01 June 2020

Brazil Mining Sector Not Making the Most of Australia-China Trade Tensions
In the mining sector, one of Brazil´s strongest, the South American country´s own problems are stopping it from gaining quota.
31 May 2020

Room for Growth in Brazil-China Agro Trade
Agricultural exports have risen in the last two decades to become half of Brazil's total exports to China, but there is still much room for growth and also for cooperation between the two countries, according to a new study by specialists from both countries.
31 May 2020

China´s Trade With Brazil, Cabo Verde and Timor Leste Resists Pandemic
Chinese trade with Brazil resisted the Covid-19 pandemic in the first quarter of the year and even rose in the cases of Cabo Verde and Timor Leste. However, exchanges with the remaining Portuguese-Speaking Countries (PSC) did not resist the pandemic.
29 May 2020

Brazilian Industry Calls for Measures to Compensate Import of Subsidized Chinese Products

 

A study by the National Confederation of Industry (CNI) shows that Brazil imported USD5 billion in subsidized Chinese products in 2019, 14.1% of Brazilian imports from China last year. The body is calling for more “compensatory measures” do protect the Brazilian industry,

29 May 2020

Brazil Picks New Representative for “BRICS Bank” and Names Brazil-China Council for Foreign Trade Position
Economist Roberto Fendt will be the new head of the Special Secretariat for Foreign Trade and International Affairs, of the Ministry of Economy, the Brazilian Government has announced Until now, Fendt has served as executive secretary of the Brazil-China Council.
25 May 2020

Further Tensions in Brazil-China Relations in Wake of Covid-19
Brazil-China relations have been put to a further strain with the release by the Brazilian Supreme Court of a recording of a Government meeting where Minister of Economy, Paulo Guedes, says the Chinese Government should pay for a Marshall Plan to all countries that have been hit by Covid-19. China´s embassy in Brazil has avoided escalation.  
17 May 2020

China-Brazil trade resists global slowdown
With international trade levels declining as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, Brazilian trade flows remain strong. According to data released by the Brazilian Foreign Trade Secretariat for the first four months of the year , exports to Asia, especially to China, are the hotspot for South America´s largest economy, and sales to China grew 11.3% .
04 May 2020

Announcement: Your New and Improved CLBrief Newsletter
Starting May 5th, a new and improved CL Brief e-mail newsletter will be available to all its readers, with timely, reliable and relevant information about business issues regarding the Portuguese-Speaking Countries (PSCs), China and other Asian economies.
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