{"id":49791,"date":"2014-12-15T18:51:00","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-balance-registers-surplus\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:55","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:55","slug":"trade-balance-registers-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-balance-registers-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade balance registers surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus in the second week of December. According to data released this Monday (15) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC), exports exceed imports in US$ 380 million in the period between 08 and 14 of this month. In the second week of December, Brazil exported US$ 4.120 billion, or US$ 824 million as daily average, and imported US$ 3.740 million, or US$ 748 million per day.<\/p>\n<p>In this month&rsquo;s first week, the trade balance already turned a surplus. With this, December&rsquo;s partial results reached a US$ 778 million surplus. <\/p>\n<p>According to MDIC&rsquo;s data, even with the surplus in the trade balance, exports for the month, up until Sunday (14), are lower than in December 2013. This month, exports reached US$ 858.8 million as daily average, a figure 13.5% lower than the amount of December of last year. In this comparison, sales are lower in the three categories of products. <\/p>\n<p>Sales of manufactured products are 24.1% lower than last year&rsquo;s December, due to a drop in sales of auto, engines and generators, aircraft, freight vehicles, engines, pneumatic and auto parts. Semi manufactured shipping registered a 6.5% retraction due to a drop in sales of gold in semi manufactured form, raw soybean, cellulose and ferro-alloy. The shipping of basic products registered a reduction of 5.9% due to a drop in sales of iron ore, soybean meal and beef. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Lower imports<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>In comparison to December of last year, imports also show up lower. By the daily average, Brazil imported US$ 781 million until Sunday, a figure 9.9% lower than the US$ 866.5 million imported daily in December 2013. According to MDIC, expenditures with fuel and lubricants dropped 47.1% while with mechanical equipment the drop registered in 20.3%. Among organic and chemical fertilizers, the reduction registered in 5.8%, steel products was 4.5% and auto and auto parts dropped 1.8%.<\/p>\n<p>In the cumulative of the year, the Brazilian trade balance is still registering losses. Until Sunday, the deficit was US$ 3.445 billion. In 2013, losses until the second week of December registered US$ 157 million. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181321\">Press release\/Abiec<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second week of December, exports exceeded imports in US$ 380 million. Results drove a better performance in December but there\u2019s still deficit for the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181321,"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-49791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"In the second week of December, exports exceeded imports in US$ 380 million. Results drove a better performance in December but there\u2019s still deficit for the year.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791","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=49791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}