From the Newsroom*
São Paulo – Brazilian exports have yielded US$ 9.64 billion in January until yesterday (28). According to information disclosed today by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, three days before the end of the month, the value has already surpassed the total recorded on January last year, which was US$ 9.271 billion.
Imports amounted to US$ 7.313 billion, and also surpassed the total for January 2006. The trade balance surplus for the month was US$ 2.327 billion.
Last week, according to the Ministry, foreign sales reached US$ 2.383 billion, and imports added to US$ 1.711 billion, resulting on a US$ 672 million trade balance surplus in Brazil.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
