{"id":44731,"date":"2013-05-13T16:44:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T18:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-surplus-continues-in-may\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:21:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:21:37","slug":"trade-surplus-continues-in-may","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-surplus-continues-in-may\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade surplus continues in May"},"content":{"rendered":"

São Paulo – Brazil’s trade balance remains in a surplus in May. In the seventh business days thus far (1st to 12th), the country recorded a $ 1.104 billion surplus. The figures were released this Monday (13th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/p>\n

During this period, Brazil exported the equivalent of US$ 7.588 billion, averaging at US$ 1.084 billion a day. The amount is down 2.7% from May last year. Imports stood at US$ 6.484 billion, averaging at US$ 926.3 million a day, up 0.6% from May 2012.<\/p>\n

Basic goods exports were up, highlighting soy bran, soybean, beef and poultry, iron ore, and tobacco leaves. Manufactured goods exports were up 0.5%, driven mostly by automobiles and auto parts, non-frozen orange juice, and refined sugar. <\/p>\n

Semi-manufactured goods exports were down 12.9%, highlighting raw soy oil, cast iron, semi-manufactured iron and steel products, and raw sugar.<\/p>\n

Products whose imports increased the most were fertilizers (66.6%), consumer electronics (29.6%), plastics and plastic products (28.2%), organic and inorganic chemicals (15.3%), optics and precision instruments (13.1%), pharmaceuticals (9.6%), and automobiles and their parts (1.7%).<\/p>\n

Exports were up 15.6% in May from April, during which exports averaged at US$ 937.8 million. Imports were down 5.8% in May from April, during which Brazil’s imports amounted to US$ 983 million.<\/p>\n

In the first two weeks of May, bilateral trade stood at US$ 14.072 billion (US$ 2.010 billion on average). Bilateral trade was up 1.7% in May this year from May 2012 (US$ 1.975 billion), based on daily average figures, and up 4.7% in May from April this year (US$ 1.920 billion).<\/p>\n

Year-to-date<\/strong><\/p>\n

Year-to-date, Brazil has exported the equivalent of US$ 79.056 billion, averaging at US$ 888.3 million. Compared with the daily average from the corresponding period in 2012, which was US$ 927.2 million, exports are down 4.2%. Imports have amounted to US$ 84.103 billion, averaging at US$ 945 million a day. The figure is up 9% from US$ 866.8 million in the corresponding period of 2012.<\/p>\n

*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Month-to-date, the Brazilian balance of trade shows a US$ 1.104 billion surplus. Exports stand at US$ 7.588 billion, averaging at US$ 1.084 billion a day. The figure is up 2.7% from May 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181703,"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-44731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Month-to-date, the Brazilian balance of trade shows a US$ 1.104 billion surplus. Exports stand at US$ 7.588 billion, averaging at US$ 1.084 billion a day. The figure is up 2.7% from May 2012.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44731","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=44731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}