The Swedish prime minister paid a visit to Brazil last month. The reason for his visit was to meet with the new president of Brazil, Dilma Rousseff and the Chilean president Sebastián Piñeira. The agenda focused on Swedish relations with these countries and especially focus on trade, research and innovation.
These two countries have both good connection with Sweden, not only the fact that 45.000 chilean people live in Sweden today, also the interesting fact that Ericsson ( a Swedish telecom company) started its jerny to Brazil already in 1888 when the founder of the company Lars Magnus Ericsson met with the emperor of that time Dom Pedro II, later to sell the first telephone station in 1900.
Sweden has today more then 200 companies running in Brazil which together employs about 30.000 people. The trade relations are steady growing and Sweden and Brazil has had a strategic partnership in the areas of trade, bio energy, science and issues regarding climate change since 2009.
During the discussions the subject of ethanol was treated, as Sweden is the leading country in Europe to use ethanol. So the interest of strengthening these bonds was of course on the table. Interesting to add to this is that after the Swedish prime minister returned to Sweden a positive decision was made by the EU that allows Sweden to continue import ethanol without higher customs. This would have raised the average prising on ethanol in Sweden. But this decision, promoting ethanol, will last during the coming three years.
News from the Swedish government:
Information about the Swedish industry in Brazil (made by www.teknikforetagen.se)
http://www.teknikforetagen.se/Documents/Ekonomisk_analys/Brasilien-eng.pdf
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