Brasília – The Brazilian trade surplus (exports minus imports) totalled US$ 698 million in the third week of May, and the accumulated result in the month so far is US$ 1.750 billion. The information was supplied by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Last week, exports totalled US$ 3.129 billion and imports, US$ 2.431 billion. In the month of May, up until now, exports amount to US$ 9.078 billion and imports, US$ 7.328 billion.
From January until the third week of May, exports have totalled US$ 52.577 billion and imports, US$ 44.105 billion, resulting in a surplus of US$ 8.472 billion. The figure is 26.1% higher than the one recorded during the same period of 2008 (US$ 6.717 billion).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
