São Paulo – Brazil exported the equivalent to US$ 4.839 billion in the fourth week of March and imported US$ 4.467 billion, which guaranteed a surplus of US$ 372 million, according to information disclosed on Monday (26) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC).
In the 17 working days of the month, the country exported US$ 16.277 billion, with a daily average of US$ 957.5 million, growth of 4.3% over the same month in 2011. The daily average of imports grew 5.7% in comparison with the same period in 2011. In the accumulated result for the month, imports totalled US$ 15.177 billion. The accumulated trade balance surplus for March is US$ 1.1 billion.
In the fourth week of the month, exports of partly manufactured goods grew 12.1% as, according to the ministry, there was growth in transfers of partly manufactured gold, soy oil in bulk, iron alloys and partly manufactured iron and steel.
In the accumulated result for the year, global trade totals US$ 99.369 billion, with a daily average of US$ 1.713 billion, 7.6% more than in the same period in 2011. The accumulated surplus in the 58 working days of 2012 is US$ 1.523 billion, resulting in a daily average of US$ 26.3 million. The reduction as against 2011 is 41.6%.
*Translated by Mark Ament
