Property, Land & Commercial Investments in Brazil

Key Facts

• Land surface: 8,514,215 km² (the world's 5th-largest);
• Population: 190 million (the world's 5th-largest);
• Gross Domestic Product (GDP): US$ 1,463 billion 2007;
• Per capita income: US$ 7,605 (2007);
• 50% of the surface area of South America
• 50% of the population of South America

Brazil is also the worlds 7th-largest consumer market

• Brazil is the gateway to Mercosur: it has borders with 9 countries (Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Surinam, Uruguay, and Venezuela).
• It is the world's largest producer of regional jets, it ranks 3rd in shoes and soft drinks, 4th in commercial aircraft, 8th in steel, 10th in automobiles.
• It is home to Latin America's largest forestry -based industry.
• It has the 5th-largest rubber industry, and the 7th-largest paper and pulp industry.
• It is the world's 6th-largest market for cosmetics, with annual sales of US$ 9 billion.
• It has a modern and competitive textile complex, with 30,000 companies and annual sales of US$ 21 billion.
• It contains 22% of the world's arable land surface.
• It has the most advanced banking system and one of the most high-tech telecommunications systems in the world. In Brazil, 99% of tax returns are filed over the internet.

Return on Investment

Investing in Brazil is clearly profitable. Over the last ten years the rate of return on direct foreign investment (FDI) in Brazil has been 26.4%. Moreover, there are no restrictions on remittance of profits.

Sustained Growth

Brazil's GDP (US$ 1,463 billion in 2007 and growing) is the 8th-largest worldwide adn 2nd in the Americas. The country is the biggest exporter of coffee, orange juice, sugar, soybean, beef, poultry, tobacco, and iron ore. Other key factors driving sustainable growth are:

• Consistent fiscal policy;
• Inflation under control;
• Declining government debt / GDP ratio;
• Growing industrial output.

Characterized by large and well-developed agricultural, mining, manufacturing, and service sectors, Brazil's economy outweighs that of all other South American countries and is expanding its presence in world markets.

Internationalization

Brazil's industrial sector accounts for one third of the Latin American economy's industrial production. The scientific and Technological development in Brazil is agreed to be very attractive to foreign direct investment, which has averaged US$ 35 Billion per annum over the last few years. Brazil's share of foreign direct investment (FDI) stood at US$ 886 million at the end of 2007

Brazil had a total trade surplus of US$5.4 billion in 2007. In the accumulated result for the year foreign sales reached US$21,065 billion, a 16.9% increase on 2006. Foreign purchases amounted to US$ 15,696 billion, an increase of 26.6% over 2006.