Brazil


IBSA to sort out issues to increase mutual cooperation
India, Brazil and South Africa (IBSA) is working towards sorting out procedural and infrastructural bottlenecks to increase mutual operation in key areas of energy, tourism and mining, industry body CII said on Monday.
IBSA strengthens its commitment to democracy
The "strategic alliance" that is the India-Brazil-South Africa trilateral axis is now more than simply a dialogue but a "privileged relationship" favouring a world where democracy will prevail not only in its political manifestation but also on social and cultural levels
Thailand swaps gateway with Brazil to regional trade blocks
Thailand and Brazil would swap the role of gateway to Asean and MERCOSUR trade block in the Latin America to boost trade of both sides, Foreign Minister Noppadon Pattama said Tuesday.
Czech Republic, Brazil sign economic cooperation agreement
Czech Foreign Minister Karel Schwarzenberg and his Brazilian counterpart Celso Amorim signed a Czech-Brazilian agreement on cooperation in the fields of economy and industry in Prague, during Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's visit to the Czech Republic.
Brazil sees EU-Mercosur talks moving later in 2008
Long-stalled talks on a trade agreement between the European Union and South America's Mercosur bloc should make progress in the second half of this year, Brazil's foreign minister said on Thursday.
Venezuela will help Mercosur become continental block
Mercosur with Venezuela included has “the potential of becoming a trade block of the whole of South America” said Brazilian Foreign Affairs minister Ceslo Amorim who also insisted that keeping out of the Washington inspired Free Trade Area of the Americas, FTAA, “has been positive”.
Understanding the EPA - Most Favoured Nation concession a danger for the Caribbean
So concerned is Brazil about the Caribbean EPA that it sent, on February 5, a communication to the World Trade Organisation requesting a debate. Its concern is that the arrangement agreed with the European Commission may cause nations like India, China and others to cease to negotiate with nations like the Caribbean.
Caricom eyes Brazil's alert
When Ministers of Caricom's Council for Finance and Planning (COFAP) meet in The Bahamas tomorrow, they are expected to consider the implications for this region of reservations expressed by Brazil at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) on provisions of the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) being negotiated with the European Commission (EC).
US companies urge investment pacts with BRIC nations
Major US exporters urged the Bush administration to begin negotiations with the "BRIC" nations -- Brazil, Russia, India and China -- on bilateral investment treaties, which they said were critical to US service company efforts to tap those large markets.
Venezuela OK'd for MERCOSUR
The Commission of the Constitution and Justice (CCJ) of the Brazilian Chamber of Deputies approved the entrance of Venezuela to the Common Market of the South (MERCOSUR).