The government of Brazil will remove on Saturday all duties on imports of components for solar power generating equipment, which may help Chinese makers of such components, the China FerroAlloy Market website reports.

Chinese maker of smartphones Xiaomi Corp. says it will open its first retail outlet in Lisbon in the autumn there, in a shop with a floor area of 350 square metres, the Notícias ao Minuto website reports.

The Macao SAR Government Executive Council says bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctoral degrees and professional qualifications awarded by Portuguese institutions of higher education will soon be recognised automatically in Macao.

The association of producers of Douro and port wines says a Sino-European Union (EU) agreement on the protected designation of origin of 100 sorts of European food and drink will ensure that only the products they make can be sold as Douro wine and port in the Chinese market, Lusa reports.

Brazilian Foreign Trade Association President José Augusto de Castro predicts that China will reinforce this year its position as the main market for Brazilian exports, Agência Brasil reports.

Chinese maker of electrical appliances and electronics TCL Electronics Holdings Ltd said on Tuesday it has doubled to 80 percent its stake in its joint venture in Brazil, SEMP TCL.

Mozambique has resumed exports of pigeon peas and mungo beans to China and Dubai after a hiatus of several months due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Jornal Notícias reports, citing a Mozambican official, Mohamed Valá.

Prime Minister Ulisses Correia e Silva of Cabo Verde says the Portelinha public housing complex on the Cabo Verdean island of São Vicente should be ready for occupation by next April.

The European Council says it has approved a protected designation of origin agreement between the European Union and China which covers food and drink.

Chinese shipbuilder BOMESC Offshore Engineering Co. Ltd says its subsidiary in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin has clinched the contract to build part of a floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessel for MODEC Offshore Production Systems (Singapore) Pte Ltd, a subsidiary of MODEC Inc. of Japan.

Clinical trials of CoronaVac, a potential vaccine against the Covid-19 virus developed by Sinovac Biotech Ltd of China, begun on Monday in the Brazilian city of São Paulo, Agência Brasil reports.

Pensana Rare Earths Plc of Australia announced on Monday that it has agreed to begin negotiations on giving state-owned China Great Wall Industry Corp. the engineering, procurement and construction contract for a rare earths mine in the central Angolan municipality of Longonjo.