FOREIGN TRADE: G.E. in Brazil

International General Electric Co. is planning to pour some $10 million into new Brazilian electrical manufacturing plants. But I.G.E.'s president, able, 64-year-old Clark Haynes Minor, who knows the world as well as many a U.S. businessman knows his own country, claims that the new plants will expand, not retard, I.G.E.'s flow of exports from the U.S. to Brazil.

First step in the Brazilian expansion program is a $1,000,000 addition to the, electric-light-bulb plant at Rio de Janeiro. Erected in 1920, the Rio plant is large and modern, employs 2,000 people, has many Brazilians in key positions. Native engineers have been brought...