{"id":299021,"date":"2021-09-24T15:26:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T18:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=299021"},"modified":"2021-09-28T18:26:28","modified_gmt":"2021-09-28T21:26:28","slug":"brazils-external-accounts-recorded-positive-balance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazils-external-accounts-recorded-positive-balance\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s external accounts recorded positive balance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 Brazil\u2019s external accounts had a positive balance of USD 1.684 billion in August, informed this Friday (25) the Brazilian Central Bank (BC). In the same month of 2020, the surplus was USD 950 million in current transactions, which are purchases and sales of goods and services and income transfers with other countries. The result is the best for the month since 2006 when the external accounts had a surplus of USD 2.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p>According to the head of the Central Bank\u2019s Statistics Department, Fernando Rocha, the result is due to the increase in the trade surplus. \u201cThe trade balance has thrived, both in exports and in imports,\u201d he said. In the first eight months of the year, the deficit is USD 6.539 billion, against a negative balance of USD 12.957 billion from January to August last year.<\/p>\n<p>Among the areas most impacting the accounts, the trade balance had a surplus of USD 5.648 billion last month. The deficit in the services sector (international travel, transportation, equipment rental, insurance, among others) had a negative balance of USD 1.577 billion. The deficit in primary income (profits and dividends, interest payments, and wages) reached USD 2.601 billion. Net inflows from direct investments totaled USD 4.451 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-297218\">Port of Vit\u00f3ria\/Supplied<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In August, exchanges of goods and services and income transfers between Brazil and other countries resulted in a positive balance. It was the best performance for the month since 2006.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2315,"featured_media":297218,"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":[91,114],"tags":[37108,24041,24042,24040,24043,24039,1803,27984,5145,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-299021","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy","8":"category-news","9":"tag-balanca-comercial-brasil-en","10":"tag-brazil-dollars","11":"tag-brazil-export","12":"tag-brazil-external-account","13":"tag-brazil-import","14":"tag-brazil-trade-balance","15":"tag-central-bank","16":"tag-exportacao-brasil-en","17":"tag-external-accounts","18":"tag-trade-balance"},"wps_subtitle":"In August, exchanges of goods and services and income transfers between Brazil and other countries resulted in a positive balance. It was the best performance for the month since 2006.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299021","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=299021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=299021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=299021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=299021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}