Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Foreign sales of Brazilian products totalled US$ 3.284 billion last week, at a daily average value of US$ 656.8 million, whereas national purchases of foreign products stood at US$ 2.932 billion, at a daily average of US$ 586.4 million. The balance of trade ran a surplus of US$ 352 million between the 21st and 25th this month, according to a bulletin disclosed this morning (28th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
In the accumulated result for the month, the balance of trade is running a US$ 748 million surplus, as a result of US$ 10.858 billion in sales and US$ 10.110 billion in purchases. Exports have decreased by an average of 15.2% compared with the previous month, whereas imports have grown by 6%. Thus, the average daily surplus for the 18 business days in January, until last Friday (25th), is just US$ 41.6 million, which is 63.7% less than the average for January last year, and 77.1% lower than the average recorded last month.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum