ITTO Brazil Report
9/22/99
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Title: ITTO BRAZIL Report
Source: Environment News Service, http://ens.lycos.com/
Status: Copyright 1999, contact source for permission to reprint
Date: September 22, 1999
YOKOHAMA, Japan, September 22, 1999 (ENS) - In spite of the recent
pressure on Brazilian currency, economic prospects have improved in
Brazil as the government has been able to achieve a primary fiscal
surplus and inflation and unemployment rates dropped, the
International Timber Trade Organization reports.
In Brazil's construction sector the search is on for alternative
products. In new office and apartment buildings, mainly in large
cities, alternative products have gradually replaced concrete blocks
for internal walls. This is opening new prospects for wood products,
mainly structural timber and for plywood and particleboard.
The III International Machinery and Timber Products Fair, will be
held in Belem, Brazil between October 26 to 30. Over 120 machinery
producers and timber producing companies will be exhibiting. The
exhibition is seen as an excellent opportunity for tropical timber
importers as most of main producers will be present. At the same time
the IV Plywood and Tropical Timber International Congress will be
held.
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