{"id":57421,"date":"2017-06-12T16:54:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-12T18:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/trade-surplus-hit-usd-2-2-billion-to-date-in-june\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:19:37","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:19:37","slug":"trade-surplus-hit-usd-2-2-billion-to-date-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/trade-surplus-hit-usd-2-2-billion-to-date-in-june\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade surplus hit USD 2.2 billion to date in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; Brazil posted a USD 2.224 billion trade surplus in the first two weeks of June, the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services reported this Monday (12). In the month&rsquo;s seven business days, exports amounted to USD 6.411 billion, with imports clocking in at USD 4.187 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Year-to-date through the second week of June, exports amounted to USD 94.337 billion and imports stood at USD 63.089 billion, leading to a USD 31.248 billion trade surplus. <\/p>\n<p>Exports averaged USD 915.9 million per business day in June, up 20.4% from a USD 760.8 million a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry said average foreign sales per day increased across the board, with increases of 37.7% for semi-finished goods, driven by raw sugar, wood pulp, semi-finished iron and steel products, semi-finished gold and raw soya oil; basic goods exports were up 17.7% on the back of crude oil, soy, iron ore, copper ore, and beef; and finished goods exports climbed 16.8%, fueled by flexible iron and steel pipes, automobiles, cargo vehicles, refined sugar and plastic polymers. <\/p>\n<p>Imports averaged USD 598.2 million a day, up 3.1% from USD 580.4 million in the first two weeks of June 2016. Highlights included a 178.1% increase in beverage and alcohol imports, a 66.9% increase in fuel and lubricant imports, a 50.1% increase in fertilizers, a 45.9% increment in steel product imports and a 9.5% hike in customer electronics imports. <\/p>\n<p>In June from May, exports were up 1.8%, while imports climbed by 8.5%.<\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-189085\">Press Release\/APPA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>qThe Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services reported that exports reached USD 6.411 billion and imports reached USD 4.182 billion in the first two weeks of June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":189085,"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-57421","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"qThe Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services reported that exports reached USD 6.411 billion and imports reached USD 4.182 billion in the first two weeks of June.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57421","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=57421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}