Brasília – The third week of November presented a trade deficit – imports were greater than exports – of US$ 663 million, as disclosed on Monday (22) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. In the period, Brazilian sales abroad totalled US$ 3.268 billion, while imports were US$ 3.931 billion.
In the first three weeks of this month, the trade balance had a surplus of US$ 662 million, with exports of US$ 12.108 billion and imports of US$ 11.446 billion.
From January to the third week of November, the trade surplus is US$ 15.283 billion, 33.1% lower than the result for the same period in 2009 (US$ 22.858 billion). This year, exports have totalled US$ 175.417 billion and imports, US$ 160.134 billion.
*Translated by Mark Ament
