China is one of Brazil’s main partners, but now, another focus of Brazilian businessmen is to take advantage of opportunities offered by the other three countries, mainly by India.
“India should present a very vigorous development and economic growth in the coming years. It would be very interesting if we could share in this growth and have a greater range, not only commercially, but also of mutual investments.
We already have many industries that are located within India and, certainly, with this new level of economic growth, many opportunities should arise”, said the president-elect of the National Confederation of Industry (CNI), Ricardo Alban, in an interview with Agência Brasil.
Alban leads the group of businessmen in South Africa. According to him, there are also opportunities to be explored in Russia and South Africa. “With Russia, we have a lot of synergy when we talk about agribusiness, in the area of fertilizers. We would need to interact a little more to develop new technologies in this area of fertilizers.
For South Africa, there is a long road to economic development. It is a gateway, which will serve as a basis for this new moment, which we talk about in Brazil, of neo-industrialization, the industry of tomorrow”.
According to the president of CNI, Brazil needs to be at the forefront in the green economy.
At this moment, when we are all talking about neo-industrialization, we have to take advantage of this new world demand. The world will seek a green economy and, within that green economy, the world will charge for sustainably sourced manufactured products.
According to the president of the Brazil National Industry Confederation, Ricardo Alban, the country needs to be at the forefront of the green economy.
“We can become a country that exports sustainable energy commodities. We need to carry out our decarbonization and sustainability for our industries so that we can take the lead in placing effectively green manufactured products”.
Alban points out that dialogue and interaction with the Brics is fundamental, since these countries account for 42 per cent of the world’s population (3.2 billion) and represent 25 per cent of the world’s GDP (US$ 25.8 trillion). In addition, these countries have abundant natural resources, with large reserves of products such as oil, natural gas, iron ore and water, in addition to millions of arable hectares.
New members
For Alban, the possible expansion of the Brics is also an opportunity for Brazilian businessmen. At least 22 countries showed interest in joining the block of nations. Current members should discuss criteria and principles for the entry of new members.
He hopes that this increase will be beneficial for the Brazilian industry. “We hope that this is an expansion where we can have interests convergent, obviously among the five countries at this moment, and that we can take advantage of the characteristics inherent to the competitive advantages of each one and accelerate where we converge. And to be able to anticipate possible divergences, to be able to mitigate them as soon as possible”.
Plataforma with Agência Brasil
