Brasília – The Brazilian trade balance recorded a surplus of US$ 304 million, with a daily average of US$ 76 million per day in the four working days of last week (10th to 16th), said on Monday (17) the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
In the period, exports totalled US$ 4.41 billion, with a daily average of US$ 1.102 billion. Imports totalled US$ 4.106 billion, with a daily average of US$ 1.026 billion per working day.
In the nine working days of October, exports totalled US$ 9.81 billion, or a daily average of US$ 1.09 billion. Imports in the period totalled US$ 8.934 billion, with a daily average of 992.7 million.
With these results, the October trade surplus up to last week was US$ 876 million (daily average of US$ 97.3 million). In comparison with the daily average for the same period in October 2010 (US$ 91.4 million), the growth is 6.5%. As against September this year (US$ 146.4 million), there has been a 33.5% reduction.
From January to last week, with 198 working days, sales abroad totalled US$ 199.809 billion (a daily average of US$ 1.009 billion). On comparing the daily average to the same period in 2010 (US$ 778.9 million), exports rose 29.6%. Imports totalled US$ 175.898 billion in the period, with a daily average of US$ 888.4 million. The result is 26% higher than the registered in the same period in 2010 (US$ 704.8 million).
In the accumulated result for the year, the trade surplus is US$ 23.911 billion, growth of 66.4% as against the same period in 2010 (US$ 14.372 billion). On comparing the daily average, the growth was 63% as against the same period last year (US$ 74.1 million).
*Translated by Mark Ament
