The U.S. Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) recently released a two part report that takes stock of Brazil’s growing productive capacity as well as the emerging bottlenecks to agricultural export growth. FAS reports, “Brazilian exports continue to surge and provide growing competition…
Monthly Archives: August 2012
New Rules for Biodiesel Auctions
Brasil Energy and Igor da Costa report that the Brazilian government is considering and moving quickly to implement a new biodiesel auction framework that would include three new rules. 1. The auctions will take place through the internet to…
Energy and Brazil – United States Relations
Energy has often played a central role in Brazil-United States bilateral relations. In the first half of the twentieth century the United States based Good Roads Movement, fueled by the American Road Builders Association and the American Automobile Association, paved…
BNDES Approves R$ 358 Million for Wind Farms in Ceara
The board of directors of the BNDES approved R$ 358 million in financing for the construction of four wind farms in the state of Ceará. The projects comprise the Trairi Project, which will have a total installed capacity of 115.4…
The Challenges of Expanding Oil and Gas Production in Brazil
Magda Chambriard, General Director of Brazil’s National Petroleum, Gas, and Biofuel Agency (known as ANP), recently outlined the major challenges facing the country’s campaign to expand oil and gas production and take advantage of the enormous “pre-salt” off shore, ultra-deepwater…
Brazilian Airport Concessions Signed
Brazil-Works Briefing: Brazilian Airport Concession Contracts Signed on June 14, 2012 The Brazilian Federal Government, and its National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC), signed concession contracts with three distinct consortia for each of the auctioned airports in Garulhos, Campinas, and Brasilia…
Making the Market Work for Brazilian Health Plan Consumers
Brazil’s federal agency (Agência Nacional de Saúde Suplementaror ANS) that regulates the private sector market for health insurance plans announced this month that it would suspend the commercial operations of 288 plans offered by 38 companies operating in the Brazil. As…