{"id":50977,"date":"2015-05-12T18:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T20:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/textiles-and-apparel-exports-down-11\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:44","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:44","slug":"textiles-and-apparel-exports-down-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/textiles-and-apparel-exports-down-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Textiles and apparel exports down 11%"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Textile exports from Brazil were down 10.8% year-on-year in Q1, the Brazilian Textile and Apparel Industry Association (Abit) reported this Tuesday (12). Export revenues reached US$ 345 million from January through March 2015, and US$ 387 million in the comparable period of 2014.<\/p>\n<p>Conversely, Brazil&rsquo;s imports of textiles and apparel increased, causing the industry to run a US$ 2.1 billion trade deficit. Imports reached US$ 2.48 billion, up 1.3% from US$ 2.44 billion in Q1 2014. <\/p>\n<p>Output also dropped in Q1, by 6.7% for textiles and 13.9% for apparel. Employment level increased, with 4,012 job posts added, albeit at a slower pace than in Q1 2014, which had 15,110 new jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Abit also reported that industry loans from the Brazilian Development Bank (BNDES) reached R$ 1.24 billion, less than 2013&rsquo;s R$ 1.89 billion. The textile and apparel industry&rsquo;s share of the bank&rsquo;s total disbursements was 1% in 2013 and 0.7% last year. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-182175\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The industry grossed US$ 345 million from foreign sales in Q1 this year, according to the industry association. The trade balance ran a US$ 2.1 billion deficit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":182175,"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-50977","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"The industry grossed US$ 345 million from foreign sales in Q1 this year, according to the industry association. The trade balance ran a US$ 2.1 billion deficit.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50977","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=50977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/182175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}