Obama will visit Brazil in March

The dates are tentative and the issues still being prepared, but President Dilma Rousseff will host a visit by the president of the United States, Barack Obama, in March. It is expected that Obama will be in Brasilia on March 19, and in Rio de Janeiro on March 20.
Dilma met Obama in Washington last year when she was former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s Chief of Staff (“ministra-chefe da Casa Civil”). At the time Lula was in the US for a forum of Brazilian and American businessmen.
Dilma and Obama will probably sign cooperation agreements in a number of areas that will facilitate trade between the two nations (but the agreements are not expected to deal with surtaxes or quotas). There will also be a social security agreement that will allow Brazilians in the US to have contributions made in the US count for Brazilian retirement benefits.
Most of the agreements have been in discussion since 2009 but were sidetracked by problems in the bilateral relationship after differences of opinion regarding Colombia, Honduras and the Iranian nuclear program.Some of the issues Dilma and Obama will most likely discuss are energy (ethanol and other alternative energy sources, especially), reconstruction assistance in Haiti, global development and Brazil’s rising trade deficit with the US.
At the moment, the United States has a trade surplus with Brazil (US exports to Brazil in 2010 totaled $27 billion; Brazilian exports to the US were worth $19 billion).

Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English – content modified
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