Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance posted a US$ 304 million deficit in the third week of October, as announced this Monday (24) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. It was the first weekly deficit recorded since the fourth week of September, when a US$ 584 million deficit was recorded.
In the third week of the month, from the 17th to the 23rd, exports stood at US$ 5.277 billion and imports stood at US$ 5.581 billion.
From the first to the third week of October, the trade balance recorded a surplus of US$ 572 million, at a daily average of US$ 40.9 million. During the period, exports reached US$ 15.087 billion and imports reached US$ 14.515 billion.
Year-to-date, the trade surplus stands at US$ 23.607 billion, as a result of US$ 205.086 billion in exports and US$ 181.479 billion in imports. The average surplus per working day is US$ 116.3 million, as against US$ 71.2 million in the same period of 2010. The average daily figure has increased by 63.2% year-on-year.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
