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BRAZILIAN AND ARGENTINIAN TEXTILE TRADE STEADY DESPITE HIGH COSTS



TRADE in clothing and textiles between Brazil and Argentina has been growing, as manufacturers in these neighbouring South America countries rein in their comparatively high costs, according to international trade data. Brazilian textile and apparel exports to Argentina rose 4.9% to USD251 million in 2017 from USD239 million in 2016, while Brazil’s imports from its southern neighbour shot up 22.6% to USD86.9 million from USD70.9 million over the same period. …

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BRAZIL SENATE MULLS LIFTING AMAZON BIOFUEL BAN



BRAZIL’S senate is debating a bill 626/2011 that could lift an existing ban on harvesting sugarcane in the country’s Amazon region to make ethanol fuel. The proposal has been supported by Brazil’s centrist President Michel Temer but opposed by environmental groups and the Brazilian Sugarcane Industry Association (UNICA – União da Indústria de Cana-de-Açúcar).…

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DELAY IN GAME-DEFINING INCENTIVES PACKAGE CAUSES UNCERTAINTY FOR BRAZIL AUTOMAKERS



BRAZIL’S automotive industry is awaiting the final details and presidential sanction of a 14-year incentives program called Rota 2030, that will offer up to Brazilian Reals BRL1.5 billion (USD467.4 million) in annual tax credits sector-wide to auto and auto parts manufacturers selling cars in Brazil.…

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METHANE HYDRATES STORE VAST AMOUNTS OF NATURAL GAS – BUT THEIR EXPLOITATION REMANS UNECONOMIC FOR NOW



 

International activity to understand and potentially extract natural gas from methane hydrates has intensified since 2010 with the continuation and launch of new research and development (R&D) projects and field production tests offshore and onshore, as shown in a new overview by Carolyn D Ruppel, chief of the gas hydrates project at the United States Geological Survey (USGS).(1)…

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EUROPEAN COMMISSION STEPS UP ACTION AGAINST BRAZILIAN MEAT FRAUD



THE EUROPEAN Commission wants to delist all companies involved in the latest cases of fraud in Brazil’s meat sector from having access to European Union (EU) markets, the EU executive’s spokesperson for health and food safety Anca Paduraru has told GlobalMeatNews.…

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BRAZIL’S TEXTILE SECTOR WOULD CONTRACT IF COUNTRY ABANDONS PROTECTIONISM, SAYS OECD



BRAZIL’S textile sector would contract, should the country abandon its protectionist policies, however, its added value clothing industry would perform better, an Organisation for Economic Cooperation & Development (OECD) report has concluded.

Noting that average tariffs levels weighted by imports are almost twice as high in Brazil as in Colombia and more than eight times higher than in Mexico or Chile, the report highlighted how around 450 tariff lines are at the maximum of 35%, including textiles, apparel and leather.…

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BRAZIL LOSES COMMANDING POSITION IN GLOBAL TOBACCO LEAF MARKETS OVER PAST 10 YEARS, WTO DATA SHOWS



THE IMPORTANCE of Brazil as the world’s top supplier of internationally-traded tobacco leaf and manufactured products has been waning for the past decade, with India, notably, improving its position. New statistical analysis released by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) shows that this market share fall for Brazil also represented a decline in volume sales, given the global trade in tobacco leaf and products has shrunk since 2013 – until 2016, the year for which the latest data is available.…

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MINERALS SECTOR NEEDS TO BURNISH COMMUNITY REPUTATION AS EXPLORATION INVESTMENT GROWS



INDUSTRIAL minerals companies need to better manage their communications in an increasingly interconnected world, the CEO of Brazil-based Nexa Resources S.A. told this year’s Prospectors & Developers Association of Canada (PDAC) convention.

In comments echoed by Canadian colleagues, Tito Martins, said he felt that the industry must change the way it engages with an expanding number of potential partners, from local communities and environmentalists, as well as regulators and financiers.…

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DELTA GALIL - INNOVATION IS THE NAME OF THE GAME, SAYS CEO



IF there is a quality that gives many Israeli companies an edge internationally, it is innovation. And this trait can certainly be said to run through the work of Israeli apparel major Delta Galil, based in Caesarea, northern Israel.

“We could not succeed if we were not innovative” said Isaac Dabah, the company’s CEO of Delta Galil, in an exclusive interview with just-style, held at his office.…

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INDIA’S RISE TO BECOME TOP BOVINE MEAT EXPORTER KEY FEATURE OF NEW WTO EXPORT SALES DATA



MAJOR shifts in the power of exporting countries within the meat and livestock sector in the past decade have been identified in new statistical analysis released by the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The global body has noted how India between 2006 and 2016 became a bovine meat export power house (notably in buffalo meat) with overseas sales rising from 79,400 tonnes (1.9% of world exports) to 1.2 million tonnes (18.7%) and the world’s largest exporter to boot.…

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