São Paulo – The Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus of USD 639 million in the third week of March. According to data from the period released this Monday (21) by the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade (MDIC) in Brasília, exports totaled USD 3.459 billion and imports totaled USD 2.820 billion from March 14 to 20.<\/p>\n
In the five business days of March’s third week, exports totaled USD 691.9 million, on average, per day, a decline of 3.5% in comparison to the performance of the month’s second week. According to the MDIC, the drop was the result, especially, of the retraction in exports of finished and semi-finished products, since the sales of basic goods increased.<\/p>\n
Among the semi-finished, the drop in the third week hit 17.6% to USD 81.2 million per day, in the comparison with the second week’s performance. Shipments dropped especially with semi-finished gold, raw sugar, wood pulp, hides and skins, steel\/iron semi-finished products and wood sawn or chipped lengthwise. <\/p>\n
Among finished products, there was a decline of 14.4%, to USD 249.7 million per day, in the same comparison. The products that had shipments dropping the most were passenger cars, centrifuges and filtering and purifying equipment, aircraft, aluminum oxide and hydroxide, polymers, refined sugar, land leveling machinery and equipment.<\/p>\n
Exports of basic goods increased 10.7% in the third week over the average up to the second week of the month. In all, USD 345.1 million in products were sold per day. There was an increase in shipments of soy beans, iron ore, poultry, beef, coffee beans and wheat grains. <\/p>\n
With imports, there was an increase of 15.7% in the third week, to USD 564.1 million per day, over the average of the month’s two first weeks. It was the result of a rise in purchases of, especially, fuels and lubricants, mechanical equipment, plastic and by-products, organic and chemical fertilizers, optical and precision instruments, and steel products.<\/p>\n
In the comparison of this month’s first three weeks with the performance registered in March of last year, exports dropped 8.3% to USD 708.1 million, on average, per business day. Sales declined in all three categories of products.<\/p>\n
In the same comparison, imports, on average, totaled USD 514.8 million per day, a drop of 31.4% over March 2015. In the month, purchases declined with steel products, fuel and lubricants, electrical devices and electronics, auto and auto parts, organic and inorganic chemicals, and mechanical equipment. <\/p>\n
In the month up to the third week, exports totaled USD 9.913 billion, and imports, USD 7.208 billion, with a surplus of USD 2.705 billion. Year-to-date, exports totaled USD 34.504 billion, and imports, USD 27.835 billion. The trade balance registers a surplus of USD 6.669 billion in the year. In the same period of 2015, the trade balance registered a deficit of USD 6.283 billion. <\/p>\n
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