São Paulo – Brazil registered a trade surplus of USD 1.058 billion last week, the result of USD 3.837 billion in exports and USD 2.779 billion in imports, according to data made public this Monday (23) by the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC).
In the first three weeks of January, exports reached USD 9.775 billion, with imports totaling USD 8.377 billion, resulting in a USD 1.398 billion trade surplus.
According to the MDIC, the exports daily average this month is 16% higher than in January of last year. Sales of basic goods and semi-finished and finished products all went up, especially iron ore, crude oil, soy beans, soy bran, pork, beef and poultry, raw sugar, iron and steel semi-finished products, ferro-alloys, wood pulp, palm oil, sawn or chipped wood, cargo vehicles, fuel oils, refined sugar, orange juice, and flat rolled iron or steels products.
With imports, the business day daily average increased 8.2% in the same comparison. According to the MDIC, purchases abroad of organic and inorganic fertilizers, cereals and milling industry products, fuels and lubricants, electrical and electronic equipment, and cars and car parts.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
