Business mission to China
12/25/2008
The Euvaldo Lodi of Mato Grosso Institute (IEL/MT) and the International Center of Businesses (CIN), of the Federation of the Industries of the State of Mato Grosso (SENAI/MT) will promote, in April of 2009, the Business Mission to China 2009 - Canton Fair. The mission, in partnership with China Trade Center Company, will have as focus the first phase of 105th Canton Fair, larger mulsti sectorial fair of Asia and second larger of the world.
Today, China is the second largest commercial partner from Brazil, being behind just of the United States. In 2007, Brazil exported U $10,7 billion to China. “China represents 30 million new consumers in a year. It is an enormous potential that can be taken advantage by the entrepreneur of Mato Grasso State that wants to export”, aid the coordinator of CIN, Gabriela Fontes. China is the main individual buyer from Mato Grosso State. However, the state exports for the east are concentrated in the soy, wood and leather. “Mato Grosso is a State with vocation to assist China. The opportunities are many, it is enough the entrepreneurs know how to recognize them and to take advantage".
Besides the fair, the participants will also go to Dubai, capital of the Arab Emirates. “There visits will be accomplished to support the entrepreneurs' contacts through the facilitators of businesses, as the Chamber of Commerce and the Brazilian Agency of Promotion of Exports and Investments (APEX)”, says Gabriela Fontes. The visits will also be accomplished in Shangai. “We will promote a forum with lectures that will have the participation of representative and financial institutions and companies of businesses. With that, the entrepreneurs will have the opportunity to enlarge the contacts and the negotiations with the country”, says Fontes.
The mission is part of the program of access actions to the Asian market of CIN/MT, that was based on China's Agenda studies - Positive Actions for the Chines-Brazilian Economical-commercial Relationships, elaborated by the National Confederation of the Industry (CNI), APEX Brasil, Brazilian Agency of Industrial Development (ABDI), Business Council Brasil-China, Ministry of the Development, Industry and External Trade (MDIC), State departments (MRE) and of the Agriculture, Livestock and Provisioning (MAP). The document aims at to triplicate the Brazilian exports to China and attract more Chinese investments to Brazil up to 2010.