{"id":48720,"date":"2014-08-18T17:25:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T19:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazilian-trade-balance-posts-surplus-in-august\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:21:03","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:21:03","slug":"brazilian-trade-balance-posts-surplus-in-august","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazilian-trade-balance-posts-surplus-in-august\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazilian trade balance posts surplus in August"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Brazilian trade balance closed the third week of August on a surplus of US$ 684 million. Month-to-date, the balance is running a surplus of US$ 348 million. According to data referring to the week between August 11th and 17th disclosed by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), a total of US$ 5.347 billion were exported, averaging at US$ 1.069 billion per day. This result is 17.6% higher than the one posted in the first two weeks of the month.<\/p>\n<p> According to the MDIC, shipments increased in the three product categories&nbsp;in comparison to the second week of the month. Among semi-manufactured goods, the increase of 33.7% was driven by the shipments of raw sugar, wood pulp, semi-manufactured iron, steel and gold. Sales of manufactured goods increased by 25.1%, highlighting fuel oils, automobiles, flat-rolled products, refined sugar, non-frozen orange juice and land levellers. Basic goods sales had a hike of 11.5% due to the increase in shipments of soy beans, iron ore, grain maize, coffee beans and leaf tobacco.<\/p>\n<p> Imports in the period amounted to U$S 4.663 billion, averaging at US$ 932.6 million per day and down 3.4% from the first two weeks of August. Among imported goods, the most significant declines were seen in fuels and lubricants,&nbsp;automobiles and parts, organic and inorganic chemicals and pharmaceuticals. <\/p>\n<p> <strong>Results in the month and in the year<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p> Exports in the first three weeks of August stood at US$ 10.802 billion, averaging at US$ 982 million per day. This poses an increase of 0.8%, by the daily average, August-on-August. August-on-July, however, shipments were down 1.9%. <\/p>\n<p> Imports, in turn, reached US$ 10.454 billion, averaging at US$ 950.4 million per day. This total is up 3.5% from August 2013 and 1.9% from July this year. <\/p>\n<p>In the year, exports amounted to US$ 144.357 billion and imports, to US$ 144.928 billion. Up until the third week of August 2014, the Brazilian trade balance is running a US$ 571 million deficit.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Rodrigo Mendon&ccedil;a<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-182763\">Press release\/APPA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Surplus in the third week reached US$ 684 million and pushed August to surplus as well. Year-to-date, however, there is a deficit of US$ 571 million.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":182763,"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-48720","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Surplus in the third week reached US$ 684 million and pushed August to surplus as well. Year-to-date, however, there is a deficit of US$ 571 million.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48720","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=48720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48720\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}