{"id":57120,"date":"2017-05-08T17:37:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-08T19:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/exports-up-7-in-the-week\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:19:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:19:39","slug":"exports-up-7-in-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/exports-up-7-in-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Exports up 7% in the week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; In the first week of May, exports from Brazil reached USD 3.582 billion, averaging USD 895.6 million a day in four business days. The result is up 7% from a year ago, the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services reported this Monday (8).<\/p>\n<p>Imports amounted to USD 2.586 billion, yielding a USD 997 million surplus. The year-to-date surplus is USD 22.367 billion, with exports at USD 71.722 billion and imports adding up to USD 49.355 billion. <\/p>\n<p>The Ministry reported that basic goods exports increased by 17.1%, with strong sales of iron ore, soybeans, copper ore, maize, poultry and pork. Semi-finished goods exports were up 11.9%, driven by wood pulp, semi-finished iron and steel products, ferroalloys, leather and hides, and timber. <\/p>\n<p>Finished goods exports were down 6.8%, and top-selling items were aircraft, flexible iron and steel tubes, taps and valves, ethanol, non-frozen orange juice and gasoline. <\/p>\n<p>Average daily exports slid by 8.9% compared with the first week of April, with sales going down 13.7% for finished goods, 7.5% for basic goods, and 3.6% for semi-finished goods. <\/p>\n<p>Average daily imports were up 21.9% to USD 646.4 million year-on-year. Spending went up on beverages and alcohol, cereals and milling industry products, fuel and lubricants, iron and steel, and customer electronics. <\/p>\n<p>Compared with the first week of April, imports were up 8.6% on the back of stronger purchases of beverages and alcohol, iron and steel products, cereals and milling industry products, organic and inorganic chemicals, and mechanical equipment.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-189101\">APPA\/ANPr<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Foreign sales averaged USD 895.6 million a day in the first week of May, the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services. The country registered a USD 997 million surplus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":189101,"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-57120","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"Foreign sales averaged USD 895.6 million a day in the first week of May, the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services. The country registered a USD 997 million surplus.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57120","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=57120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}