Brasília – In the third week of the current month, the Brazilian trade surplus reached US$ 282 million, The Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade announced this Monday (21st). Adding up this month’s three weeks’ results (a US$ 543 million deficit in the first one and a US$ 1.575 billion surplus in the second), the month-to-date result is a US$ 1.314 billion surplus.
Last week, exports reached US$ 3.824 billion, at an average of US$ 956 million per working day. Imports reached US$ 3.542 billion, at a daily average of US$ 885.5 million. Month-to-date, exports reached US$ 13.569 billion (average of US$ 1.130 billion per working day) and imports reached US$ 12.255 billion (average of US$ 1.021 billion).
Year-to-date as of the third week of November, comprising 221 working days, the trade surplus reached US$ 26.702 billion, a figure 75.9% higher than in the same period of 2010 (US$ 15.184 billion). Year-to-date as of last week, exports reached US$ 225.708 billion, at an average per working day of US$ 1.021 billion, a 28.7% increase over the same period of 2010. Imports reached US$ 199 billion, at a daily average of US$ 900.5 million and a 24.2% increase over the same period of last year.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
