More Brazilian Industries Join the Ban-Chinese-Goods Bandwagon
Written by Marli Moreira
Thursday, 13 October 2005
The announcement last week by Brazil's textile industry that it will seek safeguards against Chinese imports has been followed by more announcements from other industrial sectors.
Manufacturers of frames for glasses and hair brushes say they need protection and will file for safeguards this week.
Spokesmen for the frames for glasses industry say Brazilian companies have gone from 100% of the market in 1990, to 7% today.
As for hair brushes, the situation is similar. The number of firms making them has fallen from 20 to 2, and the Chinese have taken over 60% of the market.
Meanwhile...
In August industrial production rose in 11 out of the 14 areas surveyed by the government statistical bureau (IBGE, Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística).
The best results were in the states of Amazonas and Bahia, up 10.4%. Goiás had industrial growth of 5%, São Paulo was up 4.8%, Minas Gerais up 4.7% and Pernambuco, 4.4%.
Manufactured goods, especially durable goods, and the export sector, turned in strong performances, which gave the industrial sector a boost.
...you just want to export more and more everywhere but do everything to put barriers on your imports. Case in point.....Chinese textile exports to your country. A relatively low percentage compared to your textile industry is imported from China.but you are desesperate !!!!! But you have a huge overall trade surplus with them !!!!!!
So...stupid question......should China buy more soya from the USA or Argentina anf buy more iron ore from Australia.....instead of from Brazil ??????
Should China farmers not be as much protected from their government than you do with your textile workers ????
After all......trade is by definition....bilateral....not unilateral....as you always do with your daily complaints.
After all... Europe and the USA....are dead right to put tax barriers on your goods...and limit with quotas......your exports to them. This is exactly what you want to do...with China.....whom you recognized last year as a market economy, thereby cannot put trade barriers.
You cannot be right...in both ways !!!!! sorry !!!!
So now you want to change the game.....AGAIN !!!!!! Come on !!!!!!!!
Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country's ascension to the ranks of one of the world's most important countries. Now, as it finally takes its place on the world scene, there has been a great deal of concern about what kind of image Brazil hopes to project, now that the world is really paying attention.
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The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy.
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On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking.
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Brazil received a huge boost in its international image with its selection as the host of the 2016 Olympics, but it was really just the cherry on top of the overall recognition of the country's ascension to the ranks of one of the world's most important countries. Now, as it finally takes its place on the world scene, there has been a great deal of concern about what kind of image Brazil hopes to project, now that the world is really paying attention. 
The only good thing to say about the visit to Brazil of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, on Monday November 23, is that it was mercifully short and lasted less than 24 hours. Ahmadinejad had his picture taken being hugged by president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva who gave him a warm welcome and said Iran had every right to develop nuclear energy for peaceful purposes. 
The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
Depletion of the Amazon Rainforest is not a new concern facing environmentalists, biologists, ecologists, and a growing number of the Amazonian indigenous peoples. For decades they have feared for the fate of the world's most biologically diverse and species-rich hothouse. 
Geisy Arruda made history this week in Brazil, but for all the wrong reasons. What began as a poorly planned fashion statement has become a worldwide tale. Geisy decided to wear a pink mini-dress to her private college in São Paulo state, and after that, all hell broke loose.
...you just want to export more and more everywhere but do everything to put barriers on your imports. Case in point.....Chinese textile exports to your country. A relatively low percentage compared to your textile industry is imported from China.but you are desesperate !!!!! But you have a huge overall trade surplus with them !!!!!!
So...stupid question......should China buy more soya from the USA or Argentina anf buy more iron ore from Australia.....instead of from Brazil ??????
Should China farmers not be as much protected from their government than you do with your textile workers ????
After all......trade is by definition....bilateral....not unilateral....as you always do with your daily complaints.
After all... Europe and the USA....are dead right to put tax barriers on your goods...and limit with quotas......your exports to them. This is exactly what you want to do...with China.....whom you recognized last year as a market economy, thereby cannot put trade barriers.
You cannot be right...in both ways !!!!! sorry !!!!
So now you want to change the game.....AGAIN !!!!!!
Come on !!!!!!!!