The Brazilian Trade and Investment Promotion  Agency (APEX- Brazil) in cooperation with The National Confederation of Industry Brazil (CNI) have signed in December 2009 an agreement to launch a new office in Brussels. The Brussels office will open in March 2010.

Currently APEX has 5 trade offices located in Miami, Beijing, Dubai, Havana and  Warsaw, developing business and trade activities as platforms to help Brazilian exporters reaching international markets. According to APEX and CNI the new Brussels office will have a completely different mission from those offices. 

“The new office has a different mission. One of the most important objectives is to develop technical lobbying to the EU in order to avoid that Brazilian exports encounter problems in Europe. Our goal is to support Brazilian exporters in their business with the major Brazilian trade partner, which is the EU.” says  Mr Alessandro Teixeira, President of Apex- Brazil.

The EU is the major Brazilian trade partner. In 2009 the Brazilian exports to the EU reached 31Billion US Dollars within a total of 57,4 Billion US Dollars of the Trade Balance. The most exported products to the EU were : soya, coffee, fuel, planes, iron, gold, etc.