Brasília – In the third week of August, the Brazilian trade surplus was US$ 415 million, resulting from US$ 3.135 billion in exports and US$ 2.720 billion in imports. The figures were disclosed today (24th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
The weekly result is the lowest this month. In the first week of August, the trade surplus was US$ 935 million and in the second week, it was US$ 680 million. So far this month, the trade surplus was US$ 2.030 billion, the result of US$ 9.601 billion in exports and US$ 7.571 billion in imports.
From January until the third week of August, the trade surplus was US$ 18.943 billion, a figure 13.1% higher than recorded in the same period of 2008 (US$ 16.749 billion). During the period, exports totalled US$ 93.696 billion and imports, US$ 74.753 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
