Bras\u00edlia \u2013 After starting the month on a positive note, Brazil\u2019s trade balance has posted a deficit in the third week of March. According to figures released this Monday (18th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, the deficit stood at US$ 448 million, as against US$ 61 million and US$ 175 million surpluses in the first and second week of the month, respectively. <\/p>\n
Last week\u2019s performance reversed the trade balance results for March. The combined deficit from the 1st to 17th was US$ 212 million, with imports at US$ 10.101 billion and exports at US$ 9.889 billion.<\/p>\n
Year-to-date, the trade balance is running a US$ 5.526 billion deficit, as a result of US$ 46.931 billion in imports and US$ 41.405 billion in exports. The January deficit was US$ 4.036 billion and the February deficit was US$ 1.278 billion. From January until the third week of March last year, the balance of trade had run a US$ 1.127 billion surplus.<\/p>\n
According to the Ministry, the trade balance should keep posting deficits up until April because measure taken last year caused imports made by Petrobras to be accounted for at a later date. Due to that, said imports were only included in trade balance calculations starting in late 2012.<\/p>\n
*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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