Brasília – In the third week of this month, the Brazilian trade surplus reached US$ 656 million, as informed this Monday (20th) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. During the period, exports reached US$ 5.534 billion, at an average of US$ 1.106 billion per working day, and imports reached US$ 4.878 billion (daily average of US$ 975.6 million).
In the three weeks of June, the trade surplus reached US$ 2.615 billion, as a result of US$ 14.273 billion in exports (average of US$ 1.097 billion per working day) and US$ 11.658 billion in imports (average of US$ 896.8 million).
From January until the third week of June, the surplus reached US$ 11.170 billion, 50.9% more than in the same period of 2010 (US$ 7.404 billion).
Year-to-date, exports reached US$ 108.887 billion (average of US$ 938.7 million per working day) and imports reached US$ 97.717 billion (average of US$ 842.4 million per working day).
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
