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Brazils Fertilizer Imports From Arab States up 38 per cent From January to November 2017
The Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ABCC) has lauded the continuously growing financial ties between Brazil and Arab countries after recent data released by the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services showed the substantial South American nation importing 5.9 million tons of fertilizer from January to November this year.
The number accounted 24.4 percent of Brazil's total global plant food imports of 24.2 million tons as per the figures launched by national industry organization Associao Nacional para Difuso de Adubos (Anda). The country's global fertilizer imports were up 8.2 percent.
Dr. Michel Alaby, Assistant General and CEO of ABCC, said: "Inning accordance with the numbers supplied by the Brazilian Ministry and compiled by the ABCC, Brazil's plant food imports from the Arab nations rose 38 per cent year-on-year. This strongly suggests their robust bilateral connections and we expect that this will carry on with 2018. For our part, we will continually try to find brand-new means to more assist in and maximize their boosting trade activities to more drive development and guarantee the achievement of typical socio-economic development goals and agenda.
In November this year, records said Brazil bought 626,830 lots of fertilizer from Arab states, up 20.7 per cent from the very same duration in 2014. Morocco and Saudi Arabia are Brazil's major Arab markets, with other sources consist of the UAE, Egypt, Oman, Algeria, Bahrain, Kuwait, Lebanon, Tunisia and Jordan. Importing the majority of the plant food it uses, Brazil's output has actually gotten to 7.57 million bunches thus far this year.