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Assintecal seeks to expand business in Africa

19/01/2007

According to the Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce (ANBA), Daniel Schnorr a consultant at the Brazilian Association of Shoe and Leather Components Industries (Assintecal) for the African continent will travel to Morocco, Egypt, Tunisia and Sudan at the end of February and beginning of March in order to look for new business opportunities for Brazilian companies involved in the leather and footwear sectors. He has already scheduled meetings at approximately ten companies and arranged visits to a footwear factory and a large tannery in Sudan which is said to process 6,000 sheep hides and 500 cattle hides per day. Both companies have already signaled that they are interested in importing Brazilian products.

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