{"id":213307,"date":"2019-05-02T17:53:20","date_gmt":"2019-05-02T20:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=213307"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:39:09","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:39:09","slug":"imports-slide-trade-surplus-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/imports-slide-trade-surplus-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"Imports slide, trade surplus widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Slowing imports caused Brazil to run the second strongest trade surplus on record for an April, at USD 6.061 billion, up 2.3% from April 2018. The numbers were made public this Thursday (2) by the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (Secex).<\/p>\n<p>Exports from Brazil fetched USD 19.689 billion, down 0.1% from April 2018 in daily average terms. Imports reached USD 13.628 billion, down 1.2%.<\/p>\n<p>Imports were down 10% for capital goods, 6.6% for consumer goods and 0.2% for intermediate goods. Fuel and lubricant imports climbed 10.4%, driven by a hike in oil prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-213299\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Overall imports to Brazil were down 1.2% in April, while capital goods imports dropped by 10%. The surplus was the second widest on record for the month.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":213299,"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":[27711,375,232,2188,517,2189,178,37690,1880],"class_list":{"0":"post-213307","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-brazil","11":"tag-export","12":"tag-foreign-trade","13":"tag-import","14":"tag-importacao","15":"tag-superavit-comercial-en","16":"tag-trade-surplus"},"wps_subtitle":"Overall imports to Brazil were down 1.2% in April, while capital goods imports dropped by 10%. The surplus was the second widest on record for the month.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213307","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\/2315"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=213307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}