{"id":53459,"date":"2016-03-01T17:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T19:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/exports-from-brazil-rebound-after-17-month-slump\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:19","slug":"exports-from-brazil-rebound-after-17-month-slump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/exports-from-brazil-rebound-after-17-month-slump\/","title":{"rendered":"Exports from Brazil rebound after 17-month slump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Exports from Brazil fetched US$ 13.348 billion in February, a 4.6% increase over February 2015 based on daily averages. This was the first monthly year-on-year increment in 17 months, as well as an all-time high for a February. The numbers have been released this Tuesday (01) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade. <\/p>\n<p>Imports reached USD 10.305 billion, down 34.6%, leading to a USD 3.043 billion trade surplus. In February 2015, a USD 2.84 billion deficit had been recorded. This was the first trade surplus in a February since 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The ministry said exports increased for semi-finished (14%) and finished goods (7.9%), with foreign sales of basic goods dropping 0.5%. Semi-finished goods sales were driven by raw sugar, copper cathodes, wood pulp and sawed wood. <\/p>\n<p>Top-selling finished goods include flexible iron and steel pipes, ethanol, orange juice, automobiles, taps and valves, cargo vehicles, plastic polymers, refined sugar, flat-rolled steel, pneumatics, land levelers and aircraft. <\/p>\n<p>Revenues from basic good exports shrank as a result of smaller sales of iron ore, crude oil, coffee, poultry and soya bran. Export revenues went up for maize, soybean, raw sugar, pork, tobacco, beef and copper ore. <\/p>\n<p>Regarding export destinations, sales increased to Africa (34.4%), Asia (20.5%), Central America and the Caribbean (3.5%) and the Middle East (1.5%), and decreased to Oceania, the Mercosur, the United States and the European Union.<\/p>\n<p>Spending on imports declined for fuels and lubricants (-54.6%), capital goods (-33.3%), intermediate goods (-32.5%) and consumer goods (-20.5%), with the leading supplying regions buying less from Brazil. <\/p>\n<p><strong>Bimonthly results <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In the first two months of this year, Brazil&rsquo;s exports fetched USD 24.593 billion, down 4.7% from a year ago as per daily averages. Imports stood at USD 20.628 billion, down 35.1%, with an ensuing USD 3.965 billion surplus; in January\/February 2015, Brazil had a USD 6.01 billion deficit. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-180125\">Press Release\/Citrus\/BR<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign sales from the country fetched USD 13.348 billion in February, up 4.6% from a year ago, with the ensuing trade surplus exceeding the USD 3 billion mark.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":180125,"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-53459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Foreign sales from the country fetched USD 13.348 billion in February, up 4.6% from a year ago, with the ensuing trade surplus exceeding the USD 3 billion mark.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459","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=53459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}