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To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (10889)	10/31/2006 9:24:35 PM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

:0) if the brazilians are anything like my fellow trinis and tobagoans, then give up all hope ... when the girls are hot, beer is cold, music loud, carnival crowded, and food plentiful ... why work?

To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (10889)	11/1/2006 2:58:59 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217774

“offset RMB inflation & dollar deflation” Brazil has its own strategy. Globalization equalizes everything and the lowest cost producer –barred protectionism- takes the market. Let me give you some examples of how one can react. Brazil made cheaper shoes. Italy made higher quality footwear. China took cheaper shoes market, Brazil, did not try to compete with China. It went and took the Italy’s market by moving up market. China took flip-flops market. Brazil took Havaianas, put them in the feet of Jack Nicholson and charge USD85 for a pair. China needs lots of buses, Brazil Marco Polo went to China and set a factory to make them there. Brazilians can’t compete with Chinese factory workers. China takes European/US market, Lula goes out with the strategy of “changing the geography of trade. Sell to Africans and Middle easterners. Huawei goes out. Makes cheaper telecoms gear. To take on the world, they need the guys who go out there, sell, implement and service those networks. For that they have to pay more money to compete with the people who are already working for Alcatel, Siemens Nokia, and Ericsson. They can’t afford to wait ten years to on the job train their engineers; they need to sell, within those ten years. So no need to work cheap cheap like the Chinese.

To: Rolla Coasta who wrote (10889)	6/28/2008 5:41:24 PM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 217774

The new system of production will concentrate manufacturing where the resources are. Steel and oil in Brazil. CSN expects the mill to produce 1.5 million metric tons of steel rebar, machine wire and other products annually in four years. Vale has partnerships in Brazil for other steel-mill projects to secure long-term contracts for its iron ore. The company is building mills with ThyssenKrupp AG in Rio de Janeiro, Dongkuk Steel in Ceara state and Baosteel Group Corp. in Espirito Santo state. PBR will build refineries, ethanol pipeliens and ships to refine and export blended gasoline.