{"id":52047,"date":"2015-09-14T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-14T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazil-runs-trade-surplus-again\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:33","slug":"brazil-runs-trade-surplus-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-runs-trade-surplus-again\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil runs trade surplus again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Brazilian balance of trade recorded a new weekly surplus. In the second week of September, with four business days, exports exceeded imports by US$ 888 million. Foreign sales grossed US$ 3.2 billion, with imports amounting to US$ 2.3 billion. The export of an oil rig worth US$ 394 million was a factor in achieving the surplus, according to numbers released this Monday (14th) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. <\/p>\n<p>In the first week of September, exports also outpaced imports in Brazil. The resulting month-to-date surplus was US$ 1.4 billion, stemming from de US$ 6.4 billion in exports and US$ 4.9 billion in imports. Year-to-date, exports reached US$ 134.7 billion and imports reached US$ 126 billion. The ensuing surplus is US$ 8.7 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, exports averaged US$ 811.5 million, up 2.5% from the week before. During the week, manufactured goods sales were up 25.5% to US$ 365.8 million as a result of higher sales aircraft, flat-rolled metals, plastic polymers, cargo vehicles and fuel oils. <\/p>\n<p>Conversely, semi-finished goods exports dropped 33.9% to US$ 77.9 million as a result of lower sales of raw sugar, leathers and hides, wood pulp, raw soy oil and semi-finished gold. Basic goods exports also dropped, by 4.3% to US$ 347 million, driven by soybean, iron ore, poultry, pork, coffee beans and maize. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181201\">Porto do Rio Grande<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exports from the country exceeded imports by US$ 888 million last week. In the first week of September there was a surplus as well. Month-to-date, the surplus stands at US$ 1.4 billion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181201,"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-52047","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Exports from the country exceeded imports by US$ 888 million last week. In the first week of September there was a surplus as well. Month-to-date, the surplus stands at US$ 1.4 billion.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52047","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=52047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52047\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}