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DOING BUSINESS IN BRAZIL

IN FOCUS: Foreign Direct Investment is Key for the National Economy

Jan 2017

The encouraged sectors are the following:

(1) infrastructure: exploitation of energy sources, generation, transmission and distribution of energy of whichever nature; telecommunications of whichever nature; ports and transport systems headed also to cargo and passangers, encompassing the logistics and goods distribution systems;environmental drainage including basic sewage and solid waste management;

(2) industrial and services sites: chemical, petrochemical, encompassing basic chamicals industry, petrochemical, fine chemical, fertilizers, and chemestry based upon renewable sources; mining and mineral transformation; car industry encompassing automotive and auto parts industries;

(3) sustainable agribusiness and forestry production encompassing the respective supply chain of inputs, producers, processors and distributors, among others, of agricultural goods headed to food, beverage, wooden panels, pulp and paper, and of bioproducts produced from biomass;

(4) capital goods: industries as suppliers of equipment, components and parts;

(5) IT and communications: industrial sites of electronic componentes, telecommunications equipment and automation, manufacturing and distribution of consumer electronics and IT, other electronics equipment and of hardware of whichever nature, development of software solutions and IT services;

(6) oil and natural gas: exploitation and production of hydrocarbons and of its entire production chain inclusive the capital goods industry, other industries, engineering services and other applicable services;

(7) health: manufacturing of inputs and pharmaceutical products, vacines and diagnosis kits, chemical or biotechnology based, the manufacturing of equipment and medical supplies, dental and hospital, health services and clinical and nonclinical tryals;

(8) textile;

(9) graphic and audiovisual infrastructure sites;

(10) tourism sites;

(11) capital goods leasing;

(12) educational services;

(13) energetic efficiency services; and

(14) commerce.

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