{"id":50498,"date":"2015-03-16T17:16:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-16T19:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-deficit-grows-wider\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:48","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:48","slug":"trade-deficit-grows-wider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-deficit-grows-wider\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade deficit grows wider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazil posted a US$ 24 million trade deficit in the second week of March. According to data released this Monday (16th) by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, exports averaged US$ 724.8 million a day last week, adding up to US$ 3.624 billion. Imports averaged US$ 729.6 million a day, or US$ 3.648 billion total.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date in March, exports average US$ 755.4 million and imports average US$ 762.8 million per day. Exports are down 18.6% and imports are down 17.2% from March 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Data from the Ministry for the second week of March 2015 show exports dropped for basic and manufactured goods, and went up for semi-finished goods compared with March 2014. Basic goods exports amounted to US$ 328.4 million in the second week of the month, down 32.4% from March 2014. However, sales declined for iron ore, soybean, pork, poultry, beef and crude oil. <\/p>\n<p>Manufactured goods exports fetched US$ 295 million from the 9th to the 15th, down 6.7% from average revenues in March 2014. Sales declined the most for aircraft, plastic polymers, motors and generators, auto engines, refined sugar and auto parts. Semi-finished goods exports reached US$ 109.3 million, up 6.2% from March 2014. The higher sales were fuelled by semi- processed gold, raw sugar, sawed wood, wood pulp, ferroalloys and cast iron. <\/p>\n<p>Imports declined the most for fertilizers, down 33.4% from March 2014, fuels and lubricants, down 30.1%, rubber and rubber products (-24.5%) and mechanical equipment (-20.1%).<\/p>\n<p>The trade deficit stands at US$ 74 million month-to-date and US$ 6.089 billion year-to-date. In the comparable period of 2014, Brazil was running a US$ 5.795 billion trade deficit, as per Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade data. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181259\">Press Release\/APPA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the second week of March, Brazil posted a US$ 24 million trade deficit. Year-to-date, the deficit reached US$ 6.089 billion, according to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2229,"featured_media":181259,"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-50498","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 March, Brazil posted a US$ 24 million trade deficit. Year-to-date, the deficit reached US$ 6.089 billion, according to data from the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50498","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\/2229"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}