{"id":199934,"date":"2018-08-27T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T20:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=199934"},"modified":"2018-08-27T19:53:02","modified_gmt":"2018-08-27T22:53:02","slug":"brazil-runs-usd-441-million-trade-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-runs-usd-441-million-trade-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil runs USD 441 million trade surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil ran a USD 441 million trade surplus last week, as a result of de USD 4.027 billion in exports and USD 3.586 billion in imports. The numbers were made public this Monday (27) by the (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mdic.gov.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>Month-to-date, exports came out to USD 16.223 billion, with imports reaching USD 13.093 billion and leading to a USD 3.129 billion surplus. The year-to-date surplus was USD 37.165 billion, with USD 152.682 billion in exports and USD 115.517 billion in imports.<\/p>\n<p>Exports averaged at USD 805.4 million a day in the fourth week of August, down 14.2% from the average from the first three weeks, driven by a 24.2% drop in basic goods exports, especially crude oil, soy, copper ore, poultry, beef and pork, tobacco leaves and soya bran; an 18.6% drop in semi-finished goods exports, mainly wood pulp, raw sugar, timber, raw zinc and raw tin; and a 0.2% drop in finished goods exports, with sales sliding for heaters, dryers and their parts, flat-rolled iron\/steel, ethanol, automobiles, and earthmoving machinery and devices.<\/p>\n<p>Imports averaged at USD 717.2 million per working day last week, down 1.9% from the three prior weeks, with purchases easing for organic and inorganic chemicals, pharmaceuticals, electric and electronic equipment, mechanical equipment, fuels and lubricants.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Month-to-date<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Year-on-year in August, average daily exports were up 6.5% to USD 901.3 million, with a 14.7% hike in finished goods sales and a 12.8% hike in basic goods sales.<\/p>\n<p>Semi-finished goods exports slid 24.6%, with sales slowing for semi-finished iron and steel products, ferroalloys, leather and hides and raw zinc.<\/p>\n<p>In August from July, foreign sales were down 13.3%, driven by a decline of 25.4% in basic goods sales and a 16.3% drop in semi-finished goods sales. Finished goods exports slid 9.7%.<\/p>\n<p>Imports averaged USD 727.4 million in the first four weeks of August, up 20.5% from a year ago. Imports were up 48.9% for fuels and lubricants, 37.5% for automobiles and their parts, 28.6% for organic and inorganic chemicals, 20.3% for fertilizers and 13.7% for mechanical equipment.<\/p>\n<p>In August from July, imports dropped 14.2%, with beverages and alcohol down 25.5%, cereals and milling industry products down 8.6%, pharmaceuticals down 6.9%, iron and steel down 6.1% and mechanical equipment down 4.9%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-199923\">Miguel Schincariol\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The fourth week of August saw exports reach USD 4.027 billion, with imports amounting to USD 3.586 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":199923,"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":[232,4207,4640,2188,33718,517,1942,2189,33720,1880],"class_list":{"0":"post-199934","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-brazil","9":"tag-brazilian-ministry-of-industry","10":"tag-comercio-exterior-en","11":"tag-export","12":"tag-exportacoes-brasileiras-en","13":"tag-foreign-trade","14":"tag-foreign-trade-and-services","15":"tag-import","16":"tag-importacoes-brasileiras-en","17":"tag-trade-surplus"},"wps_subtitle":"The fourth week of August saw exports reach USD 4.027 billion, with imports amounting to USD 3.586 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199934","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=199934"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199934\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199934"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199934"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199934"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}