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[Update] A new deadline date has been confirmed by the government. Applicants can now submit their demonstration of interest until the last day of January. BRAZIL – Ministry of Environment – MMA INTERÁGUAS PROJECT Loan Agreement No. 8074 BR – World Bank The INTERÁGUAS project invites companies or consortia eligible to indicate their interest on […]

As the New Year has finally come to its beginning, so does Minas Gerais’ new state government. Since the first day of the year, the state has been ruled by the economist Fernando Da Mata Pimentel, 63, who has recently worked for Brazil’s Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade under Dilma Rousseff’s first term. […]

The municipaliy of Belo Horizonte launches the GOAL BELO programme to attract foreign companies to invest in and develop business with Belo Horizonte. The investment attraction and trade promotion programme of the city aims to  attract foreign investment, promote Belo Horizonte commercially and support the set of activities that have been developed on behalf of […]

Mineral Coal Energy and economic development have such umbilical relation that we cannot speak on development without an ample infrastructure based on installed energy. The Federal Government has recently presented the new model of the Brazilian Electrical system. Due to this proposition, the State of Rio Grande do Sul becomes naturally inserted in this project […]

On the 12th of November 2014 the Netherlands Business Support Office – NBSO Brazil officially opened its office in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. NBSO Brazil is a non-diplomatic office of the Dutch government, administrated by the Netherlands Enterprise Agency (RVO in Dutch) of the ministry of Economic Affairs, opened in Brazil to identify and present […]

  NAVAL CLUSTER FAIR 2015 – South of Brazil (Port of Rio Grande) The first Naval Cluster Fair/RS [its 4th edition will be on 20-23 October 2015] arose from Petrobras’ growing demand for Supply Vessels Platforms and Oil Tankers and the resumption of shipbuilding. As a result, an event was created with the goal of discussing […]

BITS went through a natural evolution to adapt to the IT market since 2010. The previous editions have demonstrated the need to deliver more than an exhibition area and a Congress. Activities in different IT fields were added with high standards to the public and today they have a qualified set of actions. Bits 2015 […]

The Brazilian government has launched new tools in the Foreign Trade single portal that aims to simplify trade to companies. It is now possible to attach documents digitally (eg. Receipts, Invoices, Technical Reports) and also declarations of export and ” drawback”. Focused on shortcutting bureaucracy, The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade affirms that […]