Brasília – The accumulated Brazilian trade balance surplus in 2010 has already dropped by over 60% as against 2009. According to figures disclosed today (12) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, in the first two weeks of April, the trade balance registered a positive balance of US$ 790 million, with a daily average of US$ 131.7 million. From the 1st to the 11th, sales abroad totalled US$ 4.711 billion and purchases, US$ 3.921 billion.
In the accumulated result for the year, with 67 working days, the balance was US$ 1.682 billion positive, with a daily average of US$ 25 million. The result is 61.1% lower than that registered in the same period last year, with 68 working days, when the trade balance result was US$ 4.325 billion. In the average per working day, the balance dropped 60.5% in comparison with the same period.
Between January and the second week of April, exports reached US$ 43.940 billion, with a daily average of US$ 655 million, and imports totalled US$ 42.258 billion, with a daily average of US$ 630 million.
*Translated by Mark Ament
