{"id":47281,"date":"2014-02-24T17:22:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-24T19:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-deficit-up\/"},"modified":"2019-06-30T13:07:46","modified_gmt":"2019-06-30T16:07:46","slug":"trade-deficit-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-deficit-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade deficit up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazilian exports fetched US$ 3.666 billion in the third week of February, averaging at US$ 733.2 million per business day, up 1.6% from the average in the first two weeks of the month, as per figures released by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade this Monday (24th).<\/p>\n<p>Imports stood at US$ 4.312 billion, averaging at US$ 862.4 million per day, down 6.8% using the same basis of comparison. As a result, the Brazilian trade deficit amounted to US$ 646 million last week and at US$ 2.687 billion month-to-date, as against US$ 2.041 billion in the first two weeks of February.<\/p>\n<p>According to the ministry, manufactured goods exports increased, especially auto parts, autos, frozen orange juice, vehicle engines and parts, refined sugar and cargo vehicles. <\/p>\n<p>However, semi-manufactured and basic goods exports declined, especially wood pulp, ferroalloys, leather, semi-manufactured gold, cast iron, crude aluminium, iron ore, and meats. <\/p>\n<p>Imports declined for mechanical equipment, autos and their parts, organic and inorganic chemicals, plastic and plastic products, and iron and steel products.<\/p>\n<p>Month-to-date, exports stood at US$ 10.88 billion, down 16% from February based on daily average figures. Imports stood at US$ 13.567 billion, down 3.3%. The daily averages for both exports and imports have declined in February from January 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date, exports stand at US$ 26.906 billion, down 3.7% from the same period in 2013 based on daily averages, and imports stand at US$ 33.651 billion, up 0.6%. The trade deficit stands at US$ 6.745 billion, up 46.57% from the same period in 2013. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181765\">N\u00e1jia Furlan\/Appa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil exported US$ 3.666 billion worth of goods last week and imported US$ 4.312 billion. As a result, the trade deficit has risen to nearly US$ 2.7 billion month-to-date in February.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181765,"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-47281","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil exported US$ 3.666 billion worth of goods last week and imported US$ 4.312 billion. As a result, the trade deficit has risen to nearly US$ 2.7 billion month-to-date in February.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281","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=47281"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47281\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181765"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}