Trade

The Portuguese economy has registered an external trade surplus of €1.4Bn for 2021, which corresponds to 0.7% of GDP, an increase of €1.3Bn on 2020. According to the Bank of Portugal, current [...]

In what could be a first for Portugal, a new national business chamber solely for women, The Women’s Indian Chamber of Commerce & Industry Portugal (WICCI Portugal) was launched in Lisbon [...]

Outgoing Lisbon mayor Fernando Medina who unexpectedly lost his position as the capital’s mayor in the municipal elections last month is to return to Portugal’s overseas trade and investment [...]

The president of the Porto Trade Association has called on the setting up of a new airline which will reflect the growing importance of Porto and the North and better serve the region’s business [...]

A new shipping container terminal at Portugal’s biggest and busiest port, the Port of Sines, is to go ahead. The president of the Porto de Sines, José Luís Cacho said last week that the Vasco da [...]

The British-Portuguese Chamber of Commerce (BPCC) and Anglo-Portuguese international shipping, transport and logistics group Garland is celebrating a 110-year partnership this year. At the same [...]

As was expected, Portugal’s economy contracted in the first three months of 2021 with GDP falling 3.3% (compared to the fourth quarter in 2020). In like-for-like terns the fall was 5.4% However, [...]

By CEDESA Boris Johnson has already “winked” at the new USA President, Joe Biden, and apparently does not hesitate to be a “spearhead” in transatlantic relations, just as he did in the Trump era. [...]

Can the EU and US forge a shiny new relationship from one stained by steely trade disputes?   The excellent trading relationship overall between Western Europe and the United States formed [...]

In December last year the US ambassador to Portugal, George E. Glass, remarked in an interview that Portugal had increased its influence in the world and knows it. And if the second edition of [...]