{"id":53324,"date":"2016-02-15T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T18:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/month-continues-on-trade-surplus\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:20","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:20","slug":"month-continues-on-trade-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/month-continues-on-trade-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Month continues on trade surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; In the second week of February, the Brazil registered a trade surplus again, similar to the first week. The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade reported this Monday that in last week&rsquo;s three business days, the country ran a USD 131 billion surplus, with exports at USD 1.97 billion and imports at USD 1.84 billion. <\/p>\n<p>From January through the second week of February, a USD 2.2 billion surplus was recorded. In the comparable year-ago period, there was a USD 4.3 billion deficit. So far this year, exports grossed USD 16.8 billion, with imports amounting to USD 14.6 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, average daily exports were up 3.8% from a year ago to USD 697.5 million. Semi-finished goods exports climbed 17.1%, fueled by sales of raw sugar, copper cathodes, sawed wood, raw aluminum, wood pulp, semi-finished gold, and leathers and hides. <\/p>\n<p>Finished goods exports were up 11.2%, driven by sales of flexible iron and steel pipes, ethanol, non-frozen orange juice, plastic polymers, automobiles, cargo vehicles, flat-rolled steel, refined sugar, pneumatics, pumps and compressors. Basic goods exports dropped 7.1%, with declining sales of iron ore, crude oil, soybeans, soya bran, coffee beans, tobacco leaves and poultry. <\/p>\n<p>Imports averaged USD 535.9 million a day last week, down 35.4% from February 2015, the Ministry reported. This came as a result of a decline in purchases of iron and steel products, autos and auto parts, fuels and lubricants, electronics, plastics and plastic products. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-184443\">Rio Grande Port\/Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s exports outweighed imports in the second week of February, in the second weekly surplus of the month. Since January, the country is running a USD 2.2 billion surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":184443,"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-53324","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazil\u2019s exports outweighed imports in the second week of February, in the second weekly surplus of the month. Since January, the country is running a USD 2.2 billion surplus.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324","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=53324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/184443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}