Agência Brasil*
Brasília – Brazil exported US$ 3.232 billion and imported US$ 2.494 billion during the fourth week of the current month (from the 20th to the 26th). The result drove the weekly surplus up to US$ 738 million, and the monthly surplus after 18 business days up to US$ 2.401 billion. The figures were taken from the bulletin disclosed today (27th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
In the result for the year, exports stand at US$ 98.952 billion, a 14.8% increase over the same period of last year. Nevertheless, imports have been increasing more than exports in percentage terms (27%), at US$ 72.566 billion. Therefore, the trade balance surplus for 2007 recorded a 9.2% decrease, in the same basis of comparison, to reach US$ 26.386 billion.
Projections published in the Focus bulletin, issued by the Brazilian Central Bank, show that the financial market reduced its estimates for the 2007 trade balance surplus, which decreased from US$ 43 billion to US$ 42.7 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
