Brasília – Inbound US dollars exceeded outbound by US$ 391 million in March in Brazil. The result followed two months in which outflows surpassed inflows – by US$ 2.386 billion in January and US$ 105 million in February. In March 2012, inbound dollars exceeded outbound by US$ 5.740 billion.
The flow of trade (export and import operations) has accounted for the surplus. Inflows exceeded outflows by US$ 2.019 billion. Financial operations (investment in bonds, profits and dividends remittances to foreign countries, and foreign direct investment, among other operations) posted a US$ 1.627 billion deficit.
From January through March, the foreign exchange flow was negative by US$ 2.1 billion; in the same period of 2012, a US$ 18.728 billion surplus was recorded. From January to March this year, trade flows showed a US$ 2.047 billion deficit, and financial operations ran a US$ 53 million deficit.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
