Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance ended January with a positive balance of US$ 424 million, despite the US$ 266 million deficit of the fourth and fifth weeks of the month. The information was disclosed in a press statement today (1) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. In the period, imports totalled US$ 14.79 billion and exports, US$ 15.215 billion.
In January 2010, the trade balance registered a deficit of US$ 179 million, as a result of exports of US$ 11.3 billion and imports of US$ 11.48 billion. With this, the comparison between January 2011 and January 2010 resulted in an expansion of 28.2% in exports and 22.7% in imports.
In December last year the trade balance resulted in a surplus of US$ 5.36 billion.
*Translated by Mark Ament
