AICEP
Agência para o Investimento e Comércio Externo de Portugal

Portugal has proven that the growing hype about it and its booming tourism is in fact justified after sweeping up an array of awards at this year’s glittering World Travel Awards, held for the first time in the Portuguese capital, Lisbon, last weekend.

The British Ambassador Chris Sainty, will be in Sintra on Monday, 10 December, and in the Algarve the following week, to meet members of the British community in the area to respond to questions and concerns about the UK’s exit from the European Union.

Portugal’s president, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has described relations with China as being the “best ever in history” at this moment, and expressed confidence that the two countries can team up in an “active fight” against climate change.

United Kingdom: Services growth slips in November, manufacturing growth mild.

United States: Trump-Xi meeting yields fragile 90-day trade truce.

The document was released moments before heads of government António Costa, and Xi Jinping, were about to sign a set of bilateral agreements. It rejects protectionism and unilateralism.

"The convergence points and common interests in deepening bilateral relations are increasing, and the depth of our cooperation unprecedented," Xi Jinping stressed in a speech at Ajuda Tuesday night.

“Ethics and Business”, “Corporate Responsibility” and “Motivation & Expectations” are some of the indicators with the highest level of satisfaction.

WeTek was once again in Brazil for the "NexTV Series", this time in São Paulo. The event which toke place at the World Trade Center during the 28^th and 29^th of November, was brought together by Dataxis and united industry leaders from all fields of video distribution, sharing knowledge and fruitful business connections.

The Jardín Plaza Cúcuta Shopping Centre, developed by the Portuguese company Sonae Sierra and the Colombian company Central Control, is now a reality, and will open its doors on the 27th of February 2019.

A reference in the industry of customer engagement solutions, Altitude Software gathered customers and partners last November 27, in the framework of its ‘Xperience Week’.

The president of Portugal, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa, has said that the United States "is a priority for Portugal" and that the two countries could "have new connections in the field of energy, in the future, who knows."

Chinese president Xi Jinping has described his country’s bilateral relationship with Portugal as enjoying it best phase, while highlighting Portugal's importance in China's Maritime Silk Road initiative.

The decision is more about the Gulf’s troubled politics than oil prices.

Católica, Nova SBE, Porto and ISCTE. These are the Portuguese management universities which had a spot at the ranking of the Financial Times. Two of them are even at the Top 30 in Europe.

Elastron Group, a multinational company, will attend the December edition of ITA Showtime Market. This four-day event will be held on December 2-5 at Hight Point, North Carolina.

Governments need to do more to help workers and firms adapt to the fast-changing world of work and drive inclusive growth, according to the new OECD Jobs Strategy.

Portuguese Association of Young Entrepreneurs will be co-organising EYEC10 – European Young Entrepreneur Conference.

Portugal's relationship with China is "exceptional," Portuguese President Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa said in a recent interview with Chinese media.

Weak growth of G20 international merchandise trade in third quarter of 2018.

Xi Jinping has visited Spain earlier this week and will be in Portugal on the 4th and 5th of December. China wants to strengthen cooperation with the Iberian states.

Winemaker Joao Tavares de Pina, owner-winemaker of Quinta da Boavista in the Dao wine region, welcomed me with the statement, “Dao is a ‘DO’ with more than 50 varieties of grapes.”

TAP Air Portugal revealed a big U.S. expansion Thursday, announcing two new destinations that will grow its footprint here by 50 percent. 

Opening of latest export market gives producers access to a potential 4m consumers.

The Banco de Portuga launched a Working Paper: Does domestic demand matter for firms’ exports?.

Portuguese cuisine has finally fully captivated the food world’s attention.

WeTek will once again be in Brazil for the NexTV Series, this time in São Paulo. The event will take place at the World Trade Center during the 28^th and 29^th of November, and was brought together by Dataxis. The summit will unite industry leaders from all fields of video distribution, sharing knowledge and fruitful business connections.

Portuguese flag carrier TAP on Monday welcomes its Airbus A330Neo and is to receive another 36 new aircraft by the end of 2019 when the airline expects to fly to 14 more destinations.

The North-American company's office in Lisbon is now operational, but Google refuses to give any details about what is done at their new European centre of operations.

The company's share value increased by 7%, as the demand for the company's bonds outweighed supply. Mota-Engil locked €30m more with the investor's vested interest in the company.

The WTO, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the International Trade Centre (ITC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding to advance the development of an online platform — the Global Trade Helpdesk — aimed at providing businesses, and particularly small businesses, with faster and easier access to trade data and information on potential export markets.

Trade growth is likely to slow further into the fourth quarter of 2018 according to the WTO’s latest World Trade Outlook Indicator (WTOI) released on 26 November.

Amid growing interest and debate on Blockchain, the WTO launched a new publication that seeks to demystify the technology and analyse its capacity to transform world trade.

Spain has made a successful economic recovery, underpinned by strong employment growth, gains in competitiveness and favourable external and financial conditions.

Chatron was present with its own stand at Matelec - Madrid 2018, a fair that took place simultaneously with Constutec and Veteco.

Paying Taxes 2019 a joint annual publication by the World Bank Group and PwC looks at tax regimes in 190 economies and provides an unrivalled global database.

Mozambique has made significant strides despite an economic slump over the past two years, according to the latest African Development Bank Country Result Brief.

Central Asia – a region of rich cultural diversity, heritage and ancient traditions – is also one of the most dynamic economic regions in the world.

Remittances from Portuguese emigrants in Angola have almost doubled since 2010, from €134.8 million to over €245 million last year, according to figures from the Bank of Portugal.

A team of Portuguese historians, marine biologists, underwater archaeologists and submarine robotic engineers left for Sharjah, in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday to locate 16th century Portuguese ships.

The Port of Lisbon in October saw the best month ever in terms of the number of cruise passengers, it was announced today.

Seven obsolete wind turbines in the western Algarve region of Vila do Bispo will be replaced by six new, larger, more modern turbines with greater capacity for energy production.

WeTek was once again showcased at the second ever Android TV Summit, held in Bangkok. From the 13^th of November until the 15^th, the portuguese company with worldwide ramifications was one of the few to implement the Android TV ecosystem with its powerful hardware and software solutions.

Portugal’s prime minister, António Costa, has said that the state visit this week of Angola’s president, João Lourenço, marks the end of "a cycle of the standardisation of relations".

Innovation economy is concentrated in a few main hubs.

Global economic growth remains strong but has passed its recent peak and faces escalating risks including rising trade tensions and tightening financial conditions, according to the OECD’s latest Economic Outlook.

Ten years after the start of the financial crisis and the adoption of the Small Business Act, the European Commission presented today its new SME Performance Review at the SME Assembly 2018.

In order to assess the developments in exports and imports consistently with real GDP, it is useful to look at those developments on a real-value basis, after excluding the effects of price fluctuations.

The 27th European Biomass Conference & Exhibition, which will take place between 27th and 30th of May 2019 at the Lisbon Congress Centre, Lisbon, Portugal.

For well over a century, Bordallo Pinheiro has been producing all manner of artistic glazed pottery designs, and business is booming again a decade after it almost went to the wall, writes Thomas Cabral of Agence France-Presse.

The Banco de Portugal launched the International Investment Position - September 2018.

The University International Job Fair (FINDE.U) took place in Vigo on October 23-24.

Porto global best of wine tourism 2019 goes to... The House of Sandman Hostel & Suites.

There were 6455 foreign subsidiaries in Portugal, which accounts for 1.6% of the non-financial sector's production. The average income in these (€1,351) was higher than in national companies (€943).

The Portuguese President said there is a chance to improve the mobility of citizens in CPLP countries. PR has "a lot of hope" that the opportunity will be sought after by the community's presidencies.

Lisbon is going to be a real estate market leader next year, surpassing cities like Berlin and Dublin. Life quality and “relatively cheap real estate” are making the Portuguese capital stand out.

In 2017, the passenger traffic at the Humberto Delgado airport in Lisbon reached 26.7 million passangers, and this year it is expected to increase to 29 million.

Lisbon is reinforcing its standing as a world-class tourism destination as it steps up to host the most important night of the year for the global travel and tourism industry.

New report on net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from hard-to-abate sectors published by ETC Report shows that net-zero GHG emissions are technically and financially possible.

The African Development Bank’s Business Opportunity Seminar (BOS), an initiative to enhance private sector development in key sectors for inclusive economic transformation, is scheduled to take place at Saint George Hotel & Convention Centre, Pretoria, South Africa, 22-23 November 2018.

Angolan head of state João Lourenço has pledged to raise bilateral cooperation with Portugal during his visit to European country scheduled for 22- 24 November this year.

AICEP-Trade & Investment Agency of Portugal is moving to a new building in Lisbon next 19th November 2018.

On 7th of November the Austrian Association of Sommeliers organized in a restaurant in Vienna a Wine Battle Austria – Portugal.

Le Gala annuel de fin d’année de la CCIFP est l’un des événements les plus attendus – réunissant entre 250 à 300 personnes - par les entrepreneurs franco-portugais. Le Gala 2018 sera célébré au sein du prestigieux hôtel farense, le EVA le samedi 1er décembre.

The ASEAN agreement on e-commerce paves the way for the digital economy to further flourish in the region, while advancing trade rules and building digital connectivity within it.

ITSCREDIT is going to attend LendIt Fintech Europe, on November 19 and 20.

... not one, but 6. Six trendy colours on a single gift pack.

WeTek is ranked among the 25 best startups in Portugal, placing 11th in the general table and sixth in the technology table. The data was revealed in the second edition of the most comprehensive report ever written about the Portuguese startups ecosystem, carried out by Building Global Inovators (BGI).

Efacec had won one of the most important tenders in the level crossing systems market in Europe.

Between 6th and 8th November all roads went to Vienna.

The on-going Modseat project was presented at InnoTrans 2018.The ModSeat consortium created a prototype of an innovative, modular, versatile and customizable intercity train seat.

Portugal has won the category of the ‘World’s Best Golf Destination,’ for the fifth consecutive year, beating off the challenges from Abu Dhabi, South Africa, Argentina, the United States, New Zealand, the Dominican Republic and Vietnam.

Germany: Exports contract at the close of the third quarter.

Hungary: First estimate signals cooling growth in industrial production in September.

China: Export growth accelerates in October to beat higher tariffs in 2019.

Spain: Industrial production dips for the first time in over two years in September.

Japan: Machinery orders plummet to an all-time low in September.

The German car company has announced it will hire around 300 IT specialists for a new software development unit, in a ceremony which was attended by Portugal's President.

"We did it, you did it", the President noted in his closing speech of the Web Summit 2018. Last year's challenges were met, and he announced three main goals for next year's edition of the tech event.

After World War II, the international community came together to build a shared future. Now, it must do so again.

The World Economic Forum announced today that its Annual Meeting 2019 in Davos-Klosters will focus on “Globalization 4.0: Shaping a Global Architecture in the Age of the Fourth Industrial Revolution”.

At the Lisbon Web Summit, start-ups say attracting customers and talent are the biggest challenges.

Superbug infections could cost the lives of around 2.4 million people in Europe, North America and Australia over the next 30 years unless more is done to stem antibiotic resistance.

In the garden of the OECD headquarters in Paris, a cherry tree was planted in the autumn of 2014 by a group of Japanese high school students, who had suffered the earthquake in Fukushima in March 2011.

OutSystems, one of Portugal’s biggest technology start-ups, is confident of retaining its leading position in the fast-growing market for applications built with minimal coding after receiving $360 million in funding this year, its CEO said.

WeTek was at the NexTV CEO Latin America international summit, organized by Dataxis and held from November 1 to 2 in Miami, United States of America.

This event is in the support of the Vietnamese companies that are representing and distributing Portuguese wines in Vietnam.

Two EDGE events, one in Porto in September and the other forthcoming in London, show how Portugal and the U.K. both target innovation, competitiveness and strategic partnerships to drive their economic agenda

Morocco is a good place to invest now, according to its Ambassador to Portugal, Othmane Bahnini.

New business survey identifies obstacles encountered by traders and points to reform agenda.

New ITC publication identifies opportunities for Chinese private investment in five African countries.

Philippines: Inflation steady at September's near 10-year high in October.

Malaysia: Trade surplus widens on pickup in export growth.

On 6 November the WTO circulated the panel report in the case brought by Japan in “India — Certain Measures on Imports of Iron and Steel Products” (DS518).

WTO members discussed the role that precision biotechnology techniques can play in agricultural innovation, with a view to providing farmers around the world with access to tools that increase productivity while preserving environmental sustainability.

WeTek will once again be showcasing at the second ever Android TV Summit to be held at Bangkok, from the 13^th of November, up until the 15^th. The portuguese company with worldwide ramifications is one of the few to implement the Android TV ecosystem with its powerful hardware and software solutions.

The Volkswagen Group continues to expand its software competence and is forging ahead with its digital transformation.

Governments around the world set a new record in bureaucracy busting efforts for the domestic private sector, implementing 314 business reforms over the past year, says the World Bank Group’s Doing Business 2019: Training for Reform report.

Regional Economic Outlook: Middle East and Central Asia November 2018.