{"id":157437,"date":"2018-04-09T17:18:56","date_gmt":"2018-04-09T19:18:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=157437"},"modified":"2018-04-09T19:02:37","modified_gmt":"2018-04-09T21:02:37","slug":"brazil-registers-trade-surplus-aprils-first-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-registers-trade-surplus-aprils-first-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil registers trade surplus in April\u2019s first week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 In April\u2019s first week, Brazil\u2019s trade surplus reached USD 1.461 billion, the result of USD 4.524 billion worth of exports and USD 3.064 billion worth of imports. Year-to-date, exports have reached USD 58.891 billion, while imports have reached USD 43.482 billion, resulting in a surplus of USD 15.409 billion.<\/p>\n<p>The data was released by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC). Last week, if compared to the same period of last year, there was a decline of 7.9% in exports by the daily average, totaling USD 904.9 million against USD 982.2 million.<\/p>\n<p>Exports fell due to a drop in sales of basic goods (-16.5%), such as soy beans, coffee beans, crude oil, iron ore and soy bran; of finished products (-3.1%), such as iron and steel flexible pipes, hydrocarbons and halogenated derivatives, refined sugar, aircrafts and passenger vehicles.<\/p>\n<p>Exports of semi-finished products surged 17.8%, mainly due to sales of pig iron, crude soy bean oil, ferro-alloys, wood pulp and iron and steel semi-finished products.<\/p>\n<p>Imports in April\u2019s first week surpassed in 2.9% the average of April 2017, with USD 612.7 million. In this comparison, there was an increase of 163% in purchases of beverages and alcohol, of 54.2% in pharmaceuticals, of 42.1% in vehicles and auto parts, of 30.6% in mechanical equipment, and of 19.3% in optical and precision instruments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-157389\">Luiz Souza\/NurPhoto\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the month\u2019s first week, there was a surplus of USD 1.4 billion. Year-to-date, exports have been exceeding imports in over USD 15 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":157389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[1860,1878,232,27715,376,33719,377,374,573,1879,1880],"class_list":{"0":"post-157437","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-1860","9":"tag-april","10":"tag-brazil","11":"tag-exportacoes-en-2","12":"tag-exports","13":"tag-importacoes-en","14":"tag-imports","15":"tag-mdic","16":"tag-trade-balance","17":"tag-trade-results","18":"tag-trade-surplus"},"wps_subtitle":"In the month\u2019s first week, there was a surplus of USD 1.4 billion. Year-to-date, exports have been exceeding imports in over USD 15 billion.  ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2316"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/157389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}