Agência Brasil*
Brasília – In the fourth week of May, from the 19th to the 25th, the Brazilian balance of trade showed a surplus of US$ 741 million. Exports totalled US$ 972.8 million and imports, US$ 787.5 million.
In the accumulated result for the month, the surplus increased to US$ 2.960 billion and in the year, to US$ 7.540 billion, with foreign sales of US$ 67.599 billion and purchases of US$ 60.059 billion.
The accumulated trade balance surplus for the year is equivalent to 52.3% of the daily average from January to May last year.
Imports grew 48.7% on average per business day, whereas the export volume was much lower, having grown only 20.2% using the same basis for comparison.
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum
