Agência Brasil*
São Paulo – Brazilian exports reached US$ 10.963 billion in revenues in the first month of 2007, whereas imports totalled US$ US$ 8.470 billion, generating a surplus of US$ 2.493 billion. This information was disclosed today (01) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
The trade balance result in January was smaller than that of December last year, when the surplus was US$ 5.012 billion, with exports reaching US$ 12.2 billion and imports, US$ 7.2 billion. In January last year, however, exports totalled US$ 9.271 billion and imports, US$ 6.450 billion.
The daily average of sales abroad reached US$ 498.3 million (-18.5% in comparison with December), whereas the average of purchases from abroad totalled US$ 385 million (an increase of 6.6% in the same comparison).
*Translated by Mark Ament
