Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Brazilian exports totalled US$ 2.844 billion last week; the figure is only US$ 1 million greater than Brazilian purchases of goods manufactured abroad.
Average daily exports stood at US$ 582.5 million, a decrease of 18.1% compared with the daily average for last month. Meanwhile, imports averaged at US$ 552.2 million, a 4.3% increase over the average recorded last December.
In the accumulated result for the month, exports stand at US$ 7.573 billion and imports at US$ 7.178 billion, resulting in a surplus of US$ 396 million. This is the equivalent of a 73.4% reduction compared with the daily average surplus for January 2007, and of 83.3% compared with the daily average for December, according to a bulletin disclosed today (21st) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
