{"id":20005,"date":"2006-02-20T13:38:00","date_gmt":"2006-02-20T15:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/imports-of-brazil-grew-more-than-exports-last-week\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:24:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:24:29","slug":"imports-of-brazil-grew-more-than-exports-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/imports-of-brazil-grew-more-than-exports-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Imports of Brazil grew more than exports last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><P><STRONG>Ag\u00eancia Brasil*<\/STRONG><\/P><br \/> <P>Bras\u00edlia &#8211; Brazilian exports totalled US$ 2.1 billion in the third week of February and imports totalled US$ 1.5 billion. International purchases grew above foreign sales, making the trade balance surplus (exports minus imports) drop from US$ 881 million, in the previous week, to US$ 579 million between February 13 and 17.<\/P><br \/> <P>The figures were disclosed today (20) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade and show that the surplus accumulated in 13 working days in February is US$ 1.6 billion. There are still five working days left up to the end of February, but the forecast is that the surplus for the month should be lower than the US$ 2.7 billion registered in the same period last year.<\/P><br \/> <P>According to the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex), connected to the ministry, in the accumulated result for the year, exports reached US$ 15.1 billion whereas imports totalled US$ 10.6 billion, which resulted in a trade balance surplus of US$ 4.4 billion, slightly over the US$ 4.2 billion surplus registered in the same period in 2005.<\/P><br \/> <P>While sales abroad grew 19.5% this year, when compared to those of the same period last year, imports grew 26.6%. This partly explains the forecasts for a lower trade balance surplus made by market analysts consulted by the Brazilian Central Bank for their Focus bulletin, which was published today. According to them, the US$ 44.7 billion surplus of last year should drop to around US$ 40 billion in 2006.<\/P><br \/> <P><STRONG>*Translated by Mark Ament<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ag\u00eancia Brasil* Bras\u00edlia &#8211; Brazilian exports totalled US$ 2.1 billion in the third week of February and imports totalled US$ 1.5 billion. International purchases grew above foreign sales, making the trade balance surplus (exports minus imports) drop from US$ 881 million, in the previous week, to US$ 579 million between February 13 and 17. The<\/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-20005","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\/20005","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=20005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20005\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}