Brasília – The trade surplus in the first week of May was US$ 969 million, according to figures disclosed on Monday (9) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
In the period, exports reached US$ 5.290 million, with a working day average of US$ 1.058 billion. Exports totalled US$ 4.321 billion, with a daily working average of US$ 864.2 million.
In the accumulated result from January to the first week of May this year, exports totalled US$ 76.695 billion (an average of US$ 891.8 million per working day). Imports in the period reached US$ 70.697 billion, with a working day average of US$ 822.1 million.
With this, the trade surplus in the year reached US$ 5.998 billion, against US$ 2.682 billion in the same period in 2010.
*Translated by Mark Ament
