{"id":52110,"date":"2015-09-21T16:50:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-21T18:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-balance-registers-a-us-9-bn-surplus\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:33","slug":"trade-balance-registers-a-us-9-bn-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-balance-registers-a-us-9-bn-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade balance registers a US$ 9 bn surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; The Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus of US$ 352 million last week, according to data released this Monday (21st) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC). The number is the result of exports of US$ 3.67 billion and imports of US$ 3.31 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date ending last week, external sales totaled US$ 138.4 billion, with purchases totaling US$ 129.3 billion. The trade balance is positive with a US$ 9 billion surplus, In the month, exports stand at US$ 10 billion, and imports at US$ 8.2 billion, with a US$ 1.8 billion surplus. <\/p>\n<p>Last week, which had five business days, the daily average of exports was of US$ 734 million, a decline of 8.4% over the first two weeks of September. There was a retraction of 10.9% in sales of finished goods, due especially to oil rig platforms, autoparts, flat-rolled products, autos, aircrafts, polymers and engines for vehicles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sales of basic goods also declined 7.6%, especially due to the performance of soybeans, crude oil, poultry, beef, pork, coffee beans and maize grains. Exports of semi-finished were the only ones that increased last week, in 1%, driven by wood pulp, raw sugar, semi-finished iron and steel products, raw aluminum and ferro-alloys. <\/p>\n<p>The daily average of imports increased 6.8% last week over the first fifteen days of the month and stood at US$ 663.3 million. There was an increase in imports of fuels, mechanical equipment and electronic devices in the period.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by S&eacute;rgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-181775\">Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign trade registered a positive balance year-to-date until last week. Analyzed individually, there was also a surplus in the month and last week, despite the fall of exports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":181775,"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-52110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Foreign trade registered a positive balance year-to-date until last week. Analyzed individually, there was also a surplus in the month and last week, despite the fall of exports.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52110","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=52110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181775"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}