{"id":266340,"date":"2020-01-22T15:52:36","date_gmt":"2020-01-22T18:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=266340"},"modified":"2020-01-22T17:20:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-22T20:20:01","slug":"chemical-imports-to-brazil-a-record-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/chemical-imports-to-brazil-a-record-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemical imports to Brazil a record high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo &#8211; Imports of chemical products to Brazil amounted to USD 44.1 billion last year, up 2% year-on-year. The country purchased 47.6 million tonnes, up 5.4% from a year before, the Brazilian Chemical Industry Association (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abiquim.org.br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abiquim<\/a>) reported last Tuesday (21). The volume imported is an all-time high.<\/p>\n<p>The main item imported were intermediate fertilizers. Imports of this group reached USD 8.1 billion and 28.4 million tonnes, accounting for 67.6% of chemical imports.<\/p>\n<p>The Arab countries were major fertilizer suppliers to Brazil. According to data from the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ccab.org.br\/en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Arab Brazilian Chamber of Commerce<\/a><\/strong>, the bloc sold just over USD 2 billion in fertilizers to Brazil in 2019, virtually the same from a year before. The volume was nearly 7 million tonnes, up 2.7% year on year. Morocco <em>(pictured)<\/em> was the region&#8217;s top exporter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Exports<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Chemical exports from Brazil, on the other hand, grossed USD 12.6 billion, down 8.1% from a year before. The economic crisis in Argentina impacted not just foreign fertilizer sales but overall Brazilian exports. Thermoplastic resins were the main item exported.<\/p>\n<p>With this, the Brazilian chemical industry posted a trade deficit of USD 21.5 billion. According to Abiquim, the deficit has consistently and progressively grown over the last four years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Guilherme Miranda<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-266327\">Nicolas Thibaut\/Photononstop\/AFP<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil purchased 47.6 million tonnes, up 5.4% from a year before. Fertilizers were the main item imported.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":266327,"comment_status":"open","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":[2986,32709,13505,2988,3254],"class_list":{"0":"post-266340","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"tag-abiquim","9":"tag-abiquim-2-en","10":"tag-chemical","11":"tag-chemicals","12":"tag-fertilizers"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil purchased 47.6 million tonnes, up 5.4% from a year before. Fertilizers were the main item imported.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266340","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=266340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/266340\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/266327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=266340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=266340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=266340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}