São Paulo – Brazil had a trade surplus of USD 2.058 billion last week, the result of USD 5.289 billion in exports and USD 3.231 billion in imports.
In the month, exports have reached USD 15.663 billion, while exports have totaled USD 10.766 billion, resulting in a surplus of USD 4.897 billion. Year-to-date, exports have reached USD 109.295 billion, with imports totaling USD 80.224 billion, resulting in a USD 29.071 billion surplus.
Last week, exports daily average reached USD 1.057 billion, 12.2% less than the average of June’s third week, due to a 62.1% increase in exports of semi-finished products (wood pulp, ferro-alloys, unwrought zinc, sawn or chipped timber and raw sugar) and 13.4% increase in exports of basic goods (crude oil, beef and poultry, iron ore and cattle).
Meanwhile, exports of finished products dropped 6.2% due to sales results of iron and steel flat-rolled products, iron and steel flexible pipes, fuel oils, earth-leveling machinery and devices, trailers and semi-trailers.
Imports dropped 5.6% over the same period of last year, due, mainly, to a reduction of purchases of organic and inorganic chemicals, plastics and products, pharmaceuticals, aluminum and products and precision and optical equipment.
Translated by Sérgio Kakitani