Technology

=﻿Manuel Andrade= toc

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** Future opportunities in Brazil ** I see a large synergy in some industries in Brazil because the young population’s energy and dynamic has a good match with Florida. I think one of the industries is high-tech and high-tech with slanted into software. There’s a huge mass of people who do good software in Brazil and do all kinds of programming. Financial service industries in Brazil are 300 of the best in all kinds of high-tech educations. Brazil is very eager to teach technologies. They are the closest to the United States in their eagerness for gadgets and new technologies. But it’s a great opportunity for high-tech company in Florida to look for opportunities there.

Portuguese Translation

=Manny Mencia=

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Brazil is Florida’s most important market in the world. It’s our number 1 trading partner and it’s Florida’s number 1 export destination. Another important aspect about our relationship with Brazil is that it’s driven by high technology, which are those industries that we pay the highest emphasis to. We do an awful lot of business in Brazil with information technology industries, aviation and aerospace, electronics and other high technology items that we sell. Last year, to put it in perspective, the relationship between Florida and Brazil exceeded $10 billion, which makes Brazil by far our largest trading partner in the world. Brazil is also a significant investor in the state of Florida.
 * The Importance of Florida/Brazil Relations **

Some of Brazil’s largest companies have a major stake today in the state of Florida. Companies like Embraer who uses the state of Florida as its base of operations for sales around the world. Companies like Odebrecht Construction, which is a leading developer in the state of Florida today and Cutrale ﻿ which is one of the largest investors in the citrus industry in the state of Florida. It’s a mutually beneficial relationship balanced in the state of Florida //with south Brazil approximately $2 for every dollar that we buy//. But given the fact, that the majority of the products that we sell in Brazil are the products that are designed to either enhance Brazil, manufactured through high technology, industrial type raw materials and production equipment, we feel that in that manner Florida also makes a very strong contribution to the Brazilian economy.

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