{"id":33721,"date":"2010-02-08T12:31:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T14:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/february-begins-with-trade-deficit\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:22:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:22:55","slug":"february-begins-with-trade-deficit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/february-begins-with-trade-deficit\/","title":{"rendered":"February begins with trade deficit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bras\u00edlia \u2013 The trade balance began February with a negative result, informed today (8th) the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. The deficit was US$ 172 million in the five working days of the period. Exports totalled US$ 2.928 billion and imports reached US$ 3.1 billion.<\/p>\n<p> From January to the first week of February this year, the balance is also negative, US$ 338 million, with exports of US$ 14.233 billion and imports of US$ 14.571 billion. In the same period in 2009 there was also a deficit, though much smaller: US$ 58 million.<\/p>\n<p> The commercial deficit is the result of imports, stimulated by the depreciation of the dollar against the Brazilian real.<\/p>\n<p> However, the forecast of analysts in the financial sector is that the trade balance should end the year with a surplus of US$ 10 billion. In 2009, the surplus was US$ 25.348 billion.<\/p>\n<p> <b>*Translated by Mark Ament<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US$ 172 million negative balance last week was the result of exports of US$ 2.928 billion and imports of US$ 3.1 billion, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/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-33721","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The US$ 172 million negative balance last week was the result of exports of US$ 2.928 billion and imports of US$ 3.1 billion, according to the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721","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=33721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}