São Paulo – Brazil exported the equivalent of US$ 5.734 billion from March 1 through 10, a period comprising six working days, at a daily average of US$ 955.7 million, up 0.5% from the average in the same period of last year. Imports amounted to US$ 5.498 billion, up 6.7% using the same basis of comparison. March-on-February, exports were up 10.6% and imports were down 2%.
The result was a US$ 236 million trade surplus in early March. The figures were released this Monday (11) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Compared with March 2012, exports of semi-manufactured goods were up nearly 30%, especially copper cathodes, raw sugar, semi-finished gold, cast iron, crude aluminium, leathers and hides, wood pulp and ferroalloys. Exports of manufactured and basic goods were down 8% and 1%, respectively.
On the other hand, imports were up for fertilizers (91.1%), cereals and milling products (69.1%), copper and copper products (21.2%), home appliances (16.6%), plastics and plastic products (15.2%) and optical and precision instruments (12.3%).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
