{"id":45625,"date":"2013-08-19T17:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-balance-posted-deficit-last-week-2\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:21:30","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:21:30","slug":"trade-balance-posted-deficit-last-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-balance-posted-deficit-last-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade balance posted deficit last week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Brazilian balance of trade recorded a US$ 334 million deficit in the third week of August, as a result of US$ 4.686 billion in exports and US$ 5.02 billion in imports, according to information released this Monday (19th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/p>\n<p>Daily exports from Brazil averaged at US$ 937.2 million, down 3.2% from the average in the first two weeks of August. According to the Ministry, basic goods exports were down 12.4%, including soybean, iron ore, crude oil and meats. <\/p>\n<p>Exports of semi-manufactured goods were up 3.7%, driven by raw sugar, wood pulp, gold, cast iron and ferroalloys. Manufactured goods sales were up 2.8%, especially automobiles cargo vehicles, ethanol, plastic polymers, ground levelling machines and tractors. <\/p>\n<p>Imports averaged at US$ 1.004 billion per day, up 13.7% from the average in the two prior weeks. Imports increased for fuels and lubricants, mechanical equipment, customer electronics, autos and their parts, organic and inorganic chemicals, and fertilizers. <\/p>\n<p>The result caused the month-to-date trade surplus to decline from US$ 593 million in the first two weeks to US$ 259 million thus far in August. In August, exports stand at US$ 11.463 billion and imports stand at US$ 11.204 billion.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-182409\">Appa\/Ivan Bueno<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s US$ 334 million deficit resulted from US$ 4.686 billion in exports and US$ 5.02 billion in imports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":182409,"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-45625","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil\u2019s US$ 334 million deficit resulted from US$ 4.686 billion in exports and US$ 5.02 billion in imports.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625","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=45625"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45625\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}