Ag\u00eancia Brasil*<\/STRONG><\/P> Bras\u00edlia – The Brazilian trade balance registered its all time best surplus for a full week and also broke a monthly record in July. After a weak performance in the previous week, caused, partially, by a strike by Revenue Service technicians, the trade balance (exports minus imports) reached the historic figure of US$ 1.970 billion in the period from July 25 to 29, with a daily balance of US$ 394 million, greater, incidentally, than the result for the whole week of July 18 to 22, which totalled US$ 343 million.<\/P> The general trade balance figures in July were disclosed this morning (01) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. The trade balance surplus in the month reached US$ 5.011 billion, the equivalent to growth of 24.34% in the month, or US$ 981 million more than the June performance, when it reached US$ 4.030 billion. In the year, the trade balance has reached US$ 24.678 billion, with growth of 33.62% in relation to the US$ 18.469 billion in the same period last year.<\/P> In the last week of June exports totalled US$ 3.305 billion, with expansion of 65.16% in comparison to the previous week, and imports totalled US$ 1.335 billion, with a drop of 19.48% in the same period. In the month, foreign sales reached US$ 11.061 billion and already total US$ 64.736 in the first 145 working days of this year, representing an increase of 23.8% in relation to exports in the same period last year. Imports, which reached US$ 6.050 billion in the month, totalled US$ 40.060 billion in the year, with an increase of 18.4%.<\/P> The balance accumulated in the 12 months ending in July reached US$ 39.875 billion, over the forecasts of the Focus bulletin, distributed today by the Central Bank, whose forecast is US$ 37 billion for 2005. In the same space of time, exports totalled US$ 108.914 billion and are reaching the government forecast of sales of US$ 112 billion in the year.<\/P> *Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ag\u00eancia Brasil* Bras\u00edlia – The Brazilian trade balance registered its all time best surplus for a full week and also broke a monthly record in July. After a weak performance in the previous week, caused, partially, by a strike by Revenue Service technicians, the trade balance (exports minus imports) reached the historic figure of US$<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2308,"featured_media":0,"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":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-18219","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219","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\/2308"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}