São Paulo, 4/13/2004 (Agência Brasil) - Minister of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Luiz Fernando Furlan, has inaugurated two programs to boost exports that are characterized by simple, easy operational steps with a minimum of red tape.

Radar Comercial will make data available on the internet (www.desenvolvimento.gov.br) on what the world's biggest economies buy.

A second program (Projeto de Simplificação e Modernização do Sistema Drawback) will reduce surtaxes on imported raw material if it is to be used to make exportable goods.

Translator: Allen Bennett