Ag\u00eancia Brasil*<\/STRONG><\/P> Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Brazilian balance of trade has recorded a US$ 370 million surplus in the first three business days of August. The surplus is the result of exports worth US$ 1.955 billion, and imports of US$ 1.585 billion. According to a report disclosed last Monday (06th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, the country made average daily purchases of US$ 528.3 million, the highest value so far this year.<\/P> Exports also performed well, at a daily average of US$ 651.7 million, the second best result of the year, second only to the month of June, when foreign sales reached US$ 655.9 million per day.<\/P> In a comparison between the first three days of August this year and last year, imports grew much more than exports. Whereas foreign purchases increased by 33.3%, foreign sales grew by 9.6%. According to the report of the Ministry of Development, there has been an increase especially in imports of copper and its alloys, at 71.5%, fuels and lubricants, at 63.4%, and autos and auto parts, at 47.8%.<\/P> With regard to exports, according to the release, "the variation was chiefly due to the rise in shipments of semi-manufactured goods (49.1%), with highlights for copper cathodes, cast iron, crude aluminium, and cellulose." Exports of manufactured goods grew by 13.9%, especially in shipments of orange juice, aluminium oxides and dioxides, aircraft, pneumatics, electric engines and generators, and passenger automobiles. Sales of basic goods decreased by 12% during the period.<\/P> This year, the country has exported US$ 89.289 billion and imported US$ 64.934 billion. The trade balance surplus, until the first week of August, stands at US$ 24.355 billion, a value 5.8% lower than recorded in the same period of 2006. <\/P> *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/STRONG><\/P><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ag\u00eancia Brasil* Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Brazilian balance of trade has recorded a US$ 370 million surplus in the first three business days of August. The surplus is the result of exports worth US$ 1.955 billion, and imports of US$ 1.585 billion. According to a report disclosed last Monday (06th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1466,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","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-24702","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\/24702","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\/1466"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24702\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}