Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance recorded a surplus of US$ 3.259 billion in May, as informed this Wednesday (1st) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. During the month, exports reached US$ 23.211 billion and imports, US$ 19.682 billion.
From January until May, the trade surplus reached US$ 8.558 billion, as a result of US$ 94.616 billion in exports and US$ 86.058 billion in imports. The average surplus per working day during the period reached US$ 83.1 million, as against US$ 55 million from January to May 2010. The average surplus per working day grew by 51% compared with the same period of 2010.
In the last week of May, which only had two working days (30th and 31st), the surplus reached US$ 463 million, as a result of US$ 2.163 billion in exports and US$ 1.7 billion in imports.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
