Brasília – The Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade informed today (1st) that the country’s trade surplus reached US$ 2.44 billion in August. The result recorded last month is 20.1% lower than in the same period of 2009 (US$ 3.054 billion).
In August this year, exports totalled US$ 19.236 billion and imports, US$ 16.796 billion. In the last week of the month, exports totalled US$ 1.774 billion and imports, US$ 1.590 billion, resulting in a surplus of US$ 184 million.
From January until August, the trade surplus was US$ 11.673 billion, 41.2% less than in the same period of 2009 (US$ 19.872 billion). Up until last month, exports totalled US$ 126.096 billion, and imports totalled US$ 114.423 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum