{"id":215087,"date":"2019-06-03T16:24:41","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T19:24:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=215087"},"modified":"2019-06-30T17:39:03","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T20:39:03","slug":"trade-surplus-widens-again-after-two-month-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-surplus-widens-again-after-two-month-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade surplus widens again after two-month slump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bras\u00edlia \u2013 After sliding for two months, Brazil\u2019s trade surplus went back up in May. Last month saw a USD 6.422 billion surplus, up 5.8% from USD 6.073 billion in May 2018. The figures were released this Monday (3) by the federal government\u2019s Secretariat of Foreign Trade.<\/p>\n

This was the third widest result on record for the month, trailing May 2017 (USD 7.661 billion) and May 2016 (USD 6.43 billion). Year-to-date through May, Brazil posted a USD 22.806 billion, down 5.9% year-on-year.<\/p>\n

May 2019 exports came out to USD 21.394 billion, up 5.6% from May 2018 based on daily averages. Finished goods exports were up 29.5%, driven by sales of gasoline, fuel oils, flat-rolled iron and steel products, and aircraft engine parts and turbines.<\/p>\n

Semi-finished goods exports were up 15.4% year-on-year as per daily averages, driven by cast iron, semi-finished iron or steel products, and raw soya oil. Despite the fact that the crop season has begun, basic goods exports were down 3.9%, driven by slower exports of copper ore, soybeans and soy bran.<\/p>\n

Imports amounted to USD 14.972 billion, up 7.8% year-on-year in daily average numbers. Fuel and lubricant imports were up 27.5%, buoyed by an international oil price hike that lasted the majority of the month.<\/p>\n

Capital goods imports were up 16.4%. Intermediate goods imports climbed 6.4%, while consumer goods imports dropped 6.5% on the back of a US dollar hike.<\/p>\n

Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

World Bank\/Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Brazil ran a USD 6.4 billion surplus in May, the result of USD 21.4 billion in exports and USD 15 billion in imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":215080,"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":[27711,178,33723],"class_list":{"0":"post-215087","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-importacao","10":"tag-saldo-comercial-en"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil ran a USD 6.4 billion surplus in May, the result of USD 21.4 billion in exports and USD 15 billion in imports. ","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215087","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=215087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}