{"id":54765,"date":"2016-08-01T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/july-trade-surplus-the-widest-in-ten-years\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:20:06","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:20:06","slug":"july-trade-surplus-the-widest-in-ten-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/july-trade-surplus-the-widest-in-ten-years\/","title":{"rendered":"July trade surplus the widest in ten years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazil had a USD 4.578 billion trade surplus in July, the widest number since July 2006. It came as a result of USD 16.331 billion in exports and USD 11.752 billion in imports, the Ministry of Development, Industry and Services reported this Monday (1).<\/p>\n<p>Average daily exports were down 3.5% from July 2015. Basic goods exports slid 14.7%, especially copper ore, coffee, iron ore, poultry, pork, soy, beef, maize, soy bran, and crude oil. <\/p>\n<p>Semi-finished goods exports climbed 10.1% driven by raw sugar, semi-finished gold, cast iron, ferroalloys and timber. <\/p>\n<p>Finished goods sales were up 7.3%, particularly oil rigs, flexible iron or steel hoses, refined sugar, ground levelers, ethanol, tires, taps and valves, cargo vehicles, passenger cars, car engines, and car parts. <\/p>\n<p>Average daily imports were down 20.3% in July from a year ago, with reduced purchases of fuels and lubricants, consumer goods, capital goods, and intermediate goods.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Year-to-date record <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>From January through July, Brazil had a USD 28.23 billion surplus, the highest for this period since record-taking began in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>Exports reached USD 106.583 billion, down 5.6% from January to July 2015 based on average daily numbers. Imports stood at USD 78.353 billion, down 27.6%. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-187659\">Press Release\/Appa<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazilian exports outweighed imports by USD 4.578 billion during the month. Year-to-date, the surplus was USD 28.23 billion, an all-time high for the period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":187659,"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-54765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Brazilian exports outweighed imports by USD 4.578 billion during the month. Year-to-date, the surplus was USD 28.23 billion, an all-time high for the period.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765","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=54765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}