RIO DE JANEIRO (Dow Jones)–The Brazilian unit of Royal Dutch Shell (RDSB.LN) in early June started to export ethanol from Brazil to the United States, a company press official said Tuesday.
Until year-end, Shell plans to export 150 million liters of Brazilian ethanol to the U.S., the official said.
Brazil is the world’s leading ethanol exporter, and No. 2 ethanol producer after the U.S.
U.S. ethanol demand is rising due to the elimination of the gasoline additive MTBE, a known ground water contaminant, by the U.S. refining industry.
In the first five months of this year, the U.S. imported 280.3 million liters directly from Brazil, tripling from the roughly 92.7 million liters bought in the year-earlier period.
The production of Brazilian sugarcane ethanol is far cheaper than that in the U.S., where ethanol is mostly won from corn.
The U.S., however, imposes a 54-cent-per-gallon duty on direct ethanol shipments, among other tariffs.
Source: Bernd Radowitz, Dow Jones Newswires; +55-21-3288-5004; [email protected];
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Royal Dutch Shell conspired directly with Hitler, financed the Nazi Party, was anti-Semitic and sold out its own Dutch Jewish employees to the Nazis. Shell had a close relationship with the Nazis during and after the reign of Sir Henri Deterding, an ardent Nazi, and the founder and decades long leader of the Royal Dutch Shell Group. His burial ceremony, which had all the trappings of a state funeral, was held at his private estate in Mecklenburg, Germany. The spectacle (photographs below) included a funeral procession led by a horse drawn funeral hearse with senior Nazis officials and senior Royal Dutch Shell directors in attendance, Nazi salutes at the graveside, swastika banners on display and wreaths and personal tributes from Adolf Hitler and Reichsmarschall, Hermann Goring. Deterding was an honored associate and supporter of Hitler and a personal friend of Goring.
Deterding was the guest of Hitler during a four day summit meeting at Berchtesgaden. Sir Henri and Hitler both had ambitions on Russian oil fields. Only an honored personal guest would be rewarded with a private four day meeting at Hitler’s mountain top retreat.
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