Agência Brasil*
Brasília – The Brazilian balance of trade posted a US$ 527 million surplus in the second week this month, according to data disclosed today (17) by the (Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Last week, exports totalled US$ 3.494 billion and imports, US$ 2.967. In the first week this month, a trade deficit of US$ 159 million was recorded. Thus, the month of March, after ten business days, accumulates a trade surplus of US$ 368 million.
In the accumulated result for the year, after 51 business days, exports total US$ 32.799 billion, a greater value that recorded in the same period last year (US$ 25.206 billion), and imports reached US$ 30.605 billion, more than the US$ 18.802 billion recorded by the second week of March 2006, after 47 business days.
As imports grew at a higher rate than exports, the accumulated balance of trade surplus this year reached US$ 2.194 billion, as against US$ 6.404 billion posted in the same period of 2007.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
