Agência Brasil*
Brasília – The Brazilian balance of trade recorded, in the third week of July, a surplus of US$ 651 million, as foreign sales stood at US$ 3.322 billion, and foreign purchases at US$ 2.671 billion.
The result drove the accumulated surplus for the month of July up to US$ 2.357 billion, thus pointing to a continuous increase in imports, which grew by 27.7% in the average per business day compared with July 2006, whereas exports decreased by 1.1%.
In the accumulated result for the year, the trade balance surplus now stands at US$ 23.019 billion. In 139 business days, exports reached US$ 82.859 billion, an increase of 16.8% in comparison with the same period of last year. Imports, on the other hand, reached US$ 59.840 billion, an increase of 26%.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
