From the Newsroom*<\/STRONG><\/P> S\u00e3o Paulo – Brazil exported in January the equivalent to US$ 9.271 billion, an increase in 24.5% in comparison to the same month last year. Imports, in turn, added up to US$ 6.427 billion, an increase in 22.2% in relation to January 2005. This resulted in a surplus in the trade balance favourable to the country by US$ 2.844 billion and in a global trade of US$ 15.698 billion. All values are records for the month of January, according to information released today (01) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/P> According to the ministry, there was an increase in the daily average exports of basic products (47.8%), such as oil, soy, cotton, iron ore, poultry and beef; manufactured products (10.3%), such as fuel oil, automobiles, plane laminates, petrol, ground levelling machinery, electric engines and cargo vehicles; and semi manufactured products (4.4%).<\/P> Among the destinations, there was a drop in 1.2% in the exports daily average to the United States, main importer from Brazil and responsible for purchases worth US$ 1.764 billion in January. For the other regions there were increases. The exports daily average to the Middle East, for example, increased by 25.6% and to Africa, by 19.9%.<\/P> Some Arab countries considered non-traditional destinations increased considerably their purchases from Brazil in January. This was the case of Morocco, which imported the equivalent to US$ 46.5 million, an increase in 48% in comparison to January 2005; of Somalia, Qatar and Djibouti.<\/P> Imports<\/STRONG><\/P> As per imports there was an increase in 32.5% in purchases of consumer goods, by 22.7% of fuels and lubricants, by 21% of capital goods and by 10.5% in raw materials and intermediary goods.<\/P> In the last 12 months, including January, Brazilian exports surpassed US$ 120 billion and imports added up to US$ 74.7 billion, resulting in a US$ 45.4 billion surplus and global trade of US$ 194.8 billion.<\/P> *Translated by Silvia Lindsey<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" There was an increase in 24% in comparison to the same month in 2005. Imports increased by 22% and reached US$ 6.4 billion. The information was released today by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2311,"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-19841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"There was an increase in 24% in comparison to the same month in 2005. Imports increased by 22% and reached US$ 6.4 billion. The information was released today by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841","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\/2311"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}