Brasília – Brazil started the month of September running a trade deficit of US$ 147 million, as informed today (9th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. The figure resulted from US$ 2.606 billion in expos and US$ 2.753 billion in imports in the first week of the month, which had four business days.
According to the ministry, the weekly deficit is the third highest this year, after those of the third week of January 2009 (-US$ 378 million) and the fourth week of the same month (-US$ 255 million).
In the year-to-date result until the first week of November this year, there was a surplus of US$ 22.452 billion, a figure 4.5% higher than recorded in the same period of 2008 (US$ 21.492 billion). During that period, exports totalled US$ 128.485 billion and imports, US$ 106.033 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
