{"id":359171,"date":"2024-01-05T19:55:39","date_gmt":"2024-01-05T22:55:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/brazil-posts-record-trade-surplus-in-2023\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T17:10:53","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:10:53","slug":"brazil-posts-record-trade-surplus-in-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-posts-record-trade-surplus-in-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil posts record trade surplus in 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S\u00e3o Paulo \u2013 Brazil\u2019s trade surplus set a new record in 2023. According to data released this Friday afternoon (5) by the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, in 2023, Brazil exported USD 339.7 billion and imported USD 240.8 billion, with a surplus of USD 98.8 billion. The 2023 surplus was 60.6% higher than 2022\u2019s \u2013 USD 61.5 billion. <em>Pictured above, cargo loading at the Paranagu\u00e1 Port in Paran\u00e1<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Data was presented by the Brazilian vice-president and minister of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, Geraldo Alckmin, who highlighted the increase in international shipments both in terms of revenue and volume and the drop in imports, such as fertilizers and diesel.<\/p>\n<p>Alckmin said that in 2023, Brazil had record-breaking exports to China, Indonesia, Mexico, Vietnam, Uruguay, and Paraguay, with sales to China exceeding USD 100 billion for the first time. It was the first time a country imported more than USD 100 billion from Brazil in a year. Among the products with record highs were soybean, sugar, maize, beef, and mining machinery, said Alckmin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEven with the drop in commodity prices and lower growth in the world economy, Brazil expanded the volume of exports and the export revenue. We had an expansion ten times greater than the world average \u2013 which was at 0.8% \u2013 and Brazil [had an export volume] 8.7% higher,\u201d said the vice president and minister. The government expects to export USD 348 billion this year.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry\u2019s secretary of Foreign Trade, Tatiana Prazeres, highlighted sales to several destinations increased, emphasizing China, the United States, and Mexico. She also pointed out that price drops in products imported by Brazil, such as fertilizers, contributed to the expansion of the surplus. The trade flow \u2013 the sum of imports and exports \u2013 reached USD 580.5 billion last year.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by El\u00fasio Brasileiro<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to data released by the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, exports exceeded imports by USD 98.8 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":357895,"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":[46554],"tags":[44163,27711,27715,376,33719,377,573],"class_list":{"0":"post-359171","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-global-trade","8":"tag-alckmin-en-2","9":"tag-balanca-comercial-en","10":"tag-exportacoes-en-2","11":"tag-exports","12":"tag-importacoes-en","13":"tag-imports","14":"tag-trade-balance"},"wps_subtitle":"According to data released by the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services, exports exceeded imports by USD 98.8 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359171","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=359171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359171\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}