Brasília – Brazil ran a trade surplus of US$ 639 million in the second week of this month, the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade informed today (13th). During the week, exports totalled US$ 2.719 billion and imports, US$ 2.08 billion.
So far this month, the trade surplus is US$ 1.257 billion, with exports of US$ 4.749 billion and imports of US$ 3.492 billion.
From January until the second week of July this year, the trade surplus is US$ 15.244 billion, a figure 18.8% higher than recorded in the same period of 2008 (US$ 12.831 billion). In the accumulated result up until last week, exports totalled US$ 74.701 billion and imports, US$ 59.457 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
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