{"id":44428,"date":"2013-04-08T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-08T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/april-starts-with-a-trade-surplus\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:21:41","slug":"april-starts-with-a-trade-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/april-starts-with-a-trade-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"April starts with a trade surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazilian exports amounted to US$ 4.765 billion last week, averaging at US$ 953 million a day, down 2.6% from April 2012, according to information released this Monday (8th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. Imports amounted to US$ 4.454 billion, down 4.7% based on daily average figures.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, the trade balance recorded a US$ 311 million surplus in the first week of April. Year-to-date, however, there is a US$ 4.845 billion deficit.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, according to the ministry, manufactured goods exports were down 6.7%, including aircraft, fuel oils, medication, tyres, engines and generators, auto parts, and plastic polymers. Basic goods exports were down 1.1%, especially crude oil, wheat, cotton, livestock, tobacco, and coffee. Semi-manufactured goods sales were up 0.5%, especially copper cathodes, semi-manufactured gold and raw sugar. <\/p>\n<p>Regarding imports, there was a decline in purchases of fuels and lubricants (66.6%), copper and copper works (22.6%), cereals and milling products (7.8%) and ironworks (2.7%).<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, Brazilian exports stand at US$ 55.601 billion, down 2% from the same period in 2012 based on daily average figures. Imports stand at US$ 60.446 billion, up 10.6%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-184567\">Asscom\/Appa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s balance of trade showed a US$ 311 million surplus last week. Year-to-date, however, the country is running a US$ 4.845 billion trade deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":184567,"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-44428","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil\u2019s balance of trade showed a US$ 311 million surplus last week. Year-to-date, however, the country is running a US$ 4.845 billion trade deficit.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44428","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=44428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}