Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Foreign sales of Brazilian products yielded US$ 2.871 billion in the second week of March (from the 5th to the 9th), whereas imports amounted to US$ 2.101 billion, resulting in a surplus of US$ 770 million, at a daily average of US$ 154 million. The data were disclosed today (12) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
As a consequence, the trade balance for the month reached a US$ 989 million surplus, and the surplus for the year stands at US$ 6.358 billion, as a result of US$ 25,158 billion in exports, which increased by 15% compared with the same period last year, minus US$ 18.8 billion in imports, 25.2% more than in 2006 using the same basis of comparison.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
