Brasília – The Brazilian trade surplus in the second week of September, with four working days, totalled US$ 327 million, as informed today (14th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Last week, exports totalled US$ 2.518 billion and imports, US$ 2.191 billion. So far this month, the surplus is US$ 807 million, the result of US$ 5.256 billion in exports and US$ 4.449 billion in imports.
From January until the second week of September, the trade surplus is US$ 20.775 billion, growth of 12.4% over the same period of 2008 (US$ 18.480 billion). Up until last week, exports totalled US$ 103.191 billion and imports, US$ 82.416 billion.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum