São Paulo – The Brazilian trade balance had a USD 3.8 billion surplus in September, a 29.1% increase over the same month of last year. The data was made available this Monday (3) by the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (Mdic).<\/p>\n
Brazil had revenues of USD 15.7 billion with exports and spent USD 11.9 billion with imports. Foreign sales declined 2.2% over September 2015 by the daily average, but foreign purchases declined even more at 9.2% in the same comparison.<\/p>\n
In September, semi-finished products had an increase of 19.8% in exports. Meanwhile, there was a decline with both finished products, at 3.1%, and basic goods, at 8.6%. The biggest reason for the increase of exports of the first group was the improved numbers in sales of raw sugar, semi-finished gold, sawn timber and crude soy bean oil.<\/p>\n
Finished products sales declined especially with aluminum oxides and hydroxides, vehicle engines and its parts, polymers, auto parts, flexible iron\/steel tubes and electric generators and engines. Among basic goods, decline in exports occurred especially with soy beans, tobacco leaves, corn grains, soy bran, beef and raw cotton. <\/p>\n
Among destinations that saw a decline of Brazilian exports were Asia, with 9.6%, Mercosur, with 6.3%, and Central America and the Caribbean with 2.4%. On the other hand, destinations that saw an increase in exports were Oceania, with 60%, the Middle East, with 20%, the United States, with 8.3%, the European Union, with 2%, and to Africa, with 1%. <\/p>\n
In the first nine months of the year, the Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus of USD 36.1 billion, well above the USD 10.2 billion obtained in the same period in 2015. Exports totaled USD 139.3 billion, a decline of 4.6% by the daily average, while imports totaled USD 103.1 billion, a drop of 23.9% against January to September of last year. <\/p>\n
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani<\/strong><\/p>\n