{"id":45754,"date":"2013-09-02T17:58:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-02T19:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazilian-exports-down-4-2-in-august\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:21:29","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:21:29","slug":"brazilian-exports-down-4-2-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-exports-down-4-2-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian exports down 4.2% in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazilian exports were down 4.2% August-on-August, according to figures released this Monday (2nd) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. Export revenues amounted to US$ 21.42 billion last month, as against US$ 22.38 billion in August 2012. August this year had one less working day than August last year. Exports were up 2.8% in August from July, which also had 23 working days.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date through August, exports reached US$ 156.65 billion. The amount is down 2.4% from US$ 160.5 billion in the same period last year. In the 12-month period ended August, exports stood at US$ 238.6 billion, down 4.5%. In the prior 12-month period, Brazil posted US$ 249.9 billion worth of export revenues.<\/p>\n<p>Basic goods accounted for the largest share of Brazilian exports in August, at US$ 10.6 billion in revenues, followed by manufactured goods, at US$ 7.5 billion, and semi-manufactured goods, at US$ 2.7 billion. Basic goods exports were up 2.9% August-on-August, based on daily average figures, whereas manufactured goods exports were down 3.5% and semi-manufactured goods export were down 4.9%. The basic goods whose exports increased the most were soy, copper ore, beef, poultry, pork, maize and iron ore. <\/p>\n<p>Brazilian exports to the following regions declined: Latin America and the Caribbean (except the Mercosur countries), down 20%, Middle East (down 15.8%) and European Union (down 10.9%). Exports increased to Asia, Eastern Europe, Mercosur, Africa and the United States. The countries which imported the most from Brazil in August were China, United States, Argentina, Netherlands and Japan. China&rsquo;s imports increased by 23.3%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Bilateral trade <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Brazil imported a total of US$ 20.2 billion in August, up 5.4% from August 2012&rsquo;s US$ 19.15 billion. imports were down 11% in August from July&rsquo;s US$ 22.7 billion. As a result, Brazil&rsquo;s bilateral trade stood at US$ 41.6 billion in August. The trade balance posted a US$ 1.22 billion surplus.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-184841\">Appa\/Ivan Bueno<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The country posted US$ 21.42 billion in foreign sales revenues. Imports stood at US$ 20.2 billion, resulting in a US$ 1.22 billion surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":184841,"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-45754","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The country posted US$ 21.42 billion in foreign sales revenues. Imports stood at US$ 20.2 billion, resulting in a US$ 1.22 billion surplus.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754","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=45754"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45754\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45754"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45754"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45754"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}