{"id":197553,"date":"2018-07-16T19:17:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-16T22:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=197553"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:40:05","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:40:05","slug":"brazil-records-usd-1-4-billion-trade-surplus-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-records-usd-1-4-billion-trade-surplus-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil recorded USD 1.4 billion trade surplus last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil exported USD 5.016 billion worth of products last week, and imported USD 3.581 billion, resulting in a trade surplus of USD 1.435 billion, according to data released this Monday (16) by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC).<\/p>\n<p>Exports daily average surpassed last week\u2019s average in 15.5%. There was an increase in exports of basic goods, such as crude oil, beef, soy, cashew nuts, maize and iron ore. Also went up exports of semi-finished products, such as wood pulp, semi-finished gold products, cast iron, iron and steel semi-finished products, wood in chips and unwrought tin.<\/p>\n<p>However, exports of finished products declined, especially of iron and steel flat-rolled products, auto, copper in bars, profiles and wires, tractors, ethanol and auto engines.<\/p>\n<p>Imports surged 8% in the same comparison, with an increase in purchases of mechanical equipment, auto and auto parts, steel products, fertilizers, fuels and lubricants.<\/p>\n<p>In July, exports reached USD 9.356 billion, with imports registering USD 6.899 billion, resulting in a USD 2.457 billion trade surplus. Exports went up 4.7% over July of last year, by the daily average, while imports climbed 16.2% in the same comparison.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, there\u2019s a surplus of USD 32.389 billion, the result of USD 123.068 billion in exports and USD 90.678 billion in imports.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by S\u00e9rgio Kakitani <\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-197551\">Press Release\/Port of Itaja\u00ed<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was the result of USD 5 billion in exports and USD 3.6 billion in imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":197551,"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":[27711,232,376,517,377,33723,2228,573,1880],"class_list":{"0":"post-197553","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-brazil","10":"tag-exports","11":"tag-foreign-trade","12":"tag-imports","13":"tag-saldo-comercial-en","14":"tag-surplus","15":"tag-trade-balance","16":"tag-trade-surplus"},"wps_subtitle":"It was the result of USD 5 billion in exports and USD 3.6 billion in imports.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197553","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=197553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}