Southern Brazil World Trading Company Offers a New Concept
in Import & Export Business

Released on = August 11, 2004, 3:42 pm

Press Release Author = Dr. Osvaldo Carlos Maia - Attorney at Law - Foreign
Investments Consulting

Press Release Summary = Contact us to get information on thousands of Brazilian
Companies and trade offers, including events in Brazil an abroad, among other
prdocuts and services. We will put you to deal directly with the manufacturer.

Press Release Body = YOUR COMPANY CAN SAVE A LOT OF MONEY. FEEL FREE TO CONTAC US !!

Welcome to www.ocmadvocacia.adv.br where you can browse, free of charge,
information on Brazilian companies, trade offers and events in Brazil and abroad.
You can also contact us to get specific informations about the product you’re
looking for.

Trade offers and trade opportunities are previously validated in order to guarantee
their reliability and quality of information. This will revolutionize the way that
our exporting clients conduct business in this millennium, besides showcasing these
quality products and services. We will work hard to facilitate online transactions
with our affiliates.

We are a Consulting company based in southern Brazil, helping exporting companies to
professionally compete in the international marketplace by showcasing and trading
their products globally.

Simply ask about the product you want to import from Brazil and we will give you the
best deal.

Finally, we are based on Mercosur Common Nomenclature (NCM). In case you want to
become familiar with this code, just ask us.

We are sure you wil get good business!

Brazil Over the Past Fifteen Years

Brazil has undergone a remarkable transformation from economic isolation to global
integration to become a leading emerging market. Milestones in this development
include the privatization program started in 1990, extensive import tariff reform
from 1991 to 1993, external debt re-negotiation completed in 1994, and the execution
of the Asuncion Treaty of March 26, 1991 between Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and
Uruguay, creating Mercosul, the Southern Cone Market. Mercosul came into effect on
January 1, 1995 and, after NAFTA, is arguably the most important trade agreement in
the Americas. Control of inflation, however, was perhaps the single most important
development contributing to Brazil’s recent economic and political stabilization.

By containing chronic inflation and promoting fiscal reform, the Brazilian
Government inspired domestic and foreign investor confidence and spurred internal
consumption and foreign investment levels. Extensive legal reforms consequently
followed suit to help Brazil’s legal framework keep pace with rapidly changing
economic realities, particularly enhanced foreign investment opportunities.

A key legal reform was the 1995 Amendment to the 1988 Federal Constitution, which
removed foreign investment restrictions in certain economic sectors, including
petroleum, mineral, domestic transportation and local gas service activities, by
revoking provisions which distinguished between a Brazilian company and a Brazilian
company of national capital .A Brazilian company of national capital was defined to
mean a company that was effectively controlled, directly or indirectly and in a
permanent nature, by persons physically domiciled or resident in the country or by
Brazilian public entities. Effective control was explained to mean majority voting
and management control. Foreign investment restrictions remain in certain areas,
however, such as nuclear energy, rural property ownership, border activities, mail
and telegraph, domestic aviation and aerospace. In addition, foreigners may not hold
more than 30 percent of Brazilian press and broadcasting companies.

Foreign investors have responded favorably to Brazil’s market and legal reforms,
establishing domestic market presence through a variety of investment structures.
Distribution and sales representation agreements with Brazilian individuals and/or
companies may be used as preliminary investment vehicles to survey the Brazilian
market and often precede the establishment of a direct local presence. Where market
conditions support a local presence and associated investment costs, many foreign
investors establish a Brazilian subsidiary. Alternatively, foreign investors may
seek to conduct activities through a joint venture with, or acquisition of, all or
part of a knowledgeable, experienced and connected local company to complement their
strengths. This paper will review each of these investment alternatives and other
key foreign investment considerations.

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