{"id":50086,"date":"2015-01-26T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-deficit-widens\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:52","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:52","slug":"trade-deficit-widens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-deficit-widens\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade deficit widens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazil&rsquo;s trade balance ran a deficit again in the fourth week of January, just like in the previous weeks of the month. In the five business days from January 19th to 25th, there was a US$ 868 million deficit, according to results released this Monday (26th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. Last week, exports grossed US$ 3.042 billion and imports amounted to US$ 3.910 billion.<\/p>\n<p>In the 16 business days so far in January, through the 25th, exports fetched US$ 10.557 billion, averaging at US$ 659.8 million and down 9.4% from January last year. Finished goods and basic goods exports have declined, while semi-finished goods exports have gone up. <\/p>\n<p>According to the Ministry, finished goods exports are down 18% month-to-date from the comparable period in 2014, driven by lower sales of automobiles, fuel oils, electric engines and generators, land-levelling machinery and equipment, hydrocarbons and their products, auto parts, vehicle engines and parts, writing and printing paper and cards, cast iron pipes, and plastic polymers. Basic goods exports are down 6% in January to date from the comparable period in 2014 due to lower sales of iron ore, beef, pork, rice, salt-cured meats, edible offal and poultry. <\/p>\n<p>Semi-finished goods exports are up 3% from January 2014, driven by raw palm oil, semi-finished iron or steel products, cast iron, sawed or split wood, semi-finished gold, raw soy oil, and synthetic and artificial rubber.<\/p>\n<p>By last Sunday (25th), Brazil had imported US$ 12.887 billion, averaging at US$ 805.4 million a day, down 11.8% from the comparable year-ago period. Imports declined as a result of lower purchases of cereals, down 40.7%, fuel and lubricants (down 33.3%), autos and auto parts (-24.4%), milk and its products (-20.7%), rubber and its products (-17%) and mechanical equipment (-15.6%).<\/p>\n<p>Brazil is running a US$ 2.330 billion month-to-date trade deficit. In the comparable period last year, a US$ 4.068 billion trade deficit was recorded.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181963\">Press Release\/VW<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth week of January, imports exceeded exports again in Brazil. Month-to-date, the trade deficit stands at US$ 2.330 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181963,"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-50086","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"In the fourth week of January, imports exceeded exports again in Brazil. Month-to-date, the trade deficit stands at US$ 2.330 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50086","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=50086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}