Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Exports from Brazil increased 6.96% last week compared with the week before, closing at US$ 2.7 billion. During the same period, imports decreased by nearly the same rate (-6.55%), amounting to a little more than US$ 2 billion. The data were published today (22) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
This resulted in a US$ 678 million trade surplus, 88.33% higher than the US$ 360 million trade balance result recorded in the week before last, which, in turn, had decreased 41.65% compared with the first week of the year.
So far, in the 14 business days of the current month, the Brazilian trade surplus reached US$ 1.6 billion, as a result of US$ 7.2 billion in exports and US$ 5,6 billion in imports.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum