{"id":29326,"date":"2009-01-05T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-05T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-surplus-the-lowest-since-2003\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:23:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:23:21","slug":"trade-surplus-the-lowest-since-2003","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-surplus-the-lowest-since-2003\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade surplus the lowest since 2003"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The Brazilian balance of trade ran a surplus (exports minus imports) of US$ 24.735 billion in 2008, the lowest result since 2003. Exports reached US$ 197.942 billion and imports, US$ 173.207 billion, according to information supplied by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/p>\n<p> The surplus is 38.2% lower than recorded in the previous year, of US$ 40.032 billion, when Brazilian foreign sales totalled US$ 160.649 billion and imports stood at US$ 120.617 billion.<\/p>\n<p> In December, Brazil recorded a trade surplus of US$ 2.301 billion, as a result of US$ 13.818 billion in exports and US$ 11.517 billion in imports. The surplus is December was 36.8% lower than recorded during the same period of 2007, when the trade surplus was US$ 3.639 billion, and 42.7% higher than the result for November 2008 (US$ 1.613 billion).<\/p>\n<p> According to the weekly survey of the Central Bank of Brazil with market analysts, the Brazilian trade surplus should decrease a little further in 2009, to reach US$ 15 billion. The Central Bank, in turn, estimates the surplus for the year at US$ 14 billion.<\/p>\n<p> <b> *Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum <\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian exports totalled US$ 197.9 billion in 2008 and imports reached US$ 173.2 billion, generating a surplus of US$ 24.73 billion. The figure is 38.2% lower than recorded in 2007.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"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-29326","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian exports totalled US$ 197.9 billion in 2008 and imports reached US$ 173.2 billion, generating a surplus of US$ 24.73 billion. The figure is 38.2% lower than recorded in 2007.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326","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=29326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}