{"id":54701,"date":"2016-07-25T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-25T19:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-surplus-dropped-last-week\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:06","slug":"trade-surplus-dropped-last-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-surplus-dropped-last-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade surplus dropped last week"},"content":{"rendered":"

São Paulo – The Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus of USD 852 million last week, according to data released this Monday (25) by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC). The previous week registered a surplus of USD 1.5 billion.<\/p>\n

Last week, Brazilian exports totaled USD 3.637 billion or USD 727.4 million on average per business day, a decline of 14.8% over July’s average up to the previous week. Foreign sales declined in all three categories of products: basic, semi-finished and finished.<\/p>\n

The products that registered a decline in all three groups were, especially, soy beans, crude oil, poultry and beef, soy bran, tobacco, raw sugar, iron and steel semi-finished products, wood pulp, semi-finished gold products, iron, oil platforms, refined sugar, polymers, auto part and vehicle engines.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, imports totaled USD 2.785 billion last week, or USD 557 million on average per business day, a decline of 4% over July’s average up to last week. Foreign purchases declined with electronics, organic and inorganic chemicals and fertilizers, pharmaceuticals and fuel and lubricants. <\/p>\n

In July, the trade balance has registered, so far, a surplus of USD 3.851 billion, the result of USD 13.021 billion in exports and USD 9.17 billion in imports. The average per business day regarding exports went up 1% over the same month of last year. The average of imports decreased 18.4% in the same comparison.<\/p>\n

Last year, Brazilian exports reached USD 103.273 billion and imports, USD 75.771 billion, resulting in a USD 27.503 billion. <\/p>\n

*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n

Press Release<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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