{"id":195275,"date":"2018-06-01T16:43:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:43:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=195275"},"modified":"2018-06-01T16:50:21","modified_gmt":"2018-06-01T18:50:21","slug":"brazil-ran-trade-surplus-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-ran-trade-surplus-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil ran trade surplus in May"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil posted a USD 5.9 billion trade surplus in May, the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services reported this Friday (1). The surplus came as a result of USD 19.2 billion in exports and USD 13.2 billion in imports.<\/p>\n<p>Average daily exports from Brazil were up 1.9% year-on-year in May, and down 2.5% in May from April. Average daily imports climbed 14.5% year-on-year and dropped 3.8% in May from April.<\/p>\n<p>Basic goods exports were up 18.4% year-on-year in May to USD 10.8 billion. Finished goods exports slid by 17.3% to USD 5.4 billion, with semi-finished exports dropping 9.5% to USD 2.4 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Foreign sales of basic goods were driven by livestock, up 253%, as well as crude oil, soya bran, soybeans, copper ore and beef. Foreign sales dropped for sugar, pneumatics, aircraft, leather and hides, etc.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date through May, exports reached USD 93.6 billion, while imports came out to USD 67.4 billion, yielding a USD 26.1 billion surplus. In the 12 months through May, exports fetched USD 223.4 billion and imports amounted to USD 159.3 billion, with the ensuing surplus reaching USD 64.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-195274\">Ivan Bueno\/Appa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last month saw USD 19.2 billion worth of exports from the country, with imports reaching USD 13.2 billion and leading to a USD 5.9 billion surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":195274,"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":[27711,375,1942,37946,1941,1880],"class_list":{"0":"post-195275","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-balanca-comercial-en","9":"tag-balance-of-trade","10":"tag-foreign-trade-and-services","11":"tag-mdic-en","12":"tag-ministry-of-industry","13":"tag-trade-surplus"},"wps_subtitle":"Last month saw USD 19.2 billion worth of exports from the country, with imports reaching USD 13.2 billion and leading to a USD 5.9 billion surplus. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195275","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=195275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/195275\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=195275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=195275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=195275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}