{"id":58077,"date":"2017-08-28T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/escaesco.com.br\/lab\/anba\/brazil-runs-usd-2-1-billion-trade-surplus\/"},"modified":"2024-02-21T22:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T01:19:28","slug":"brazil-runs-usd-2-1-billion-trade-surplus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/brazil-runs-usd-2-1-billion-trade-surplus\/","title":{"rendered":"Brazil runs USD 2.1 billion trade surplus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>S&atilde;o Paulo &ndash; With exports coming out to USD 5.146 billion and imports amounting to USD 2.991 billion, Brazil ran a USD 2.154 billion surplus in trade during the fourth week of August, the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services reported this Monday (28).<\/p>\n<p>With four business days to go before the end of the month, the month-to-date surplus is USD 4.696 billion, the result of USD 16.189 billion in exports and USD 11.493 in imports. The year-to-date surplus is USD 47.206 billion, with exports reaching USD 142.66 billion and imports adding up to USD 95.454 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, average exports per day were up 15.4% year-on-year to USD 852,100 per business day, with sales increasing in all product categories: 24.5% for basic goods, 9.5% for finished goods and 8.3% for semi-finished goods. <\/p>\n<p>The increase in foreign sales of basic goods was driven by soybeans, maize, crude oil, beef, pork, poultry and copper ore. Semi-finished exports were driven by wood pulp, semi-finished iron and steel products, raw sugar, ferroalloys and timber. Finished goods exports increased on the back of automobiles, flat-rolled iron and steel, fuel oils, non-frozen orange juice, earthmoving machinery and general machinery. <\/p>\n<p>Average daily imports were up 8.3% year-on-year last week, to USD 604.9 million, driven by fuel and lubricants, iron and steel products, fertilizers, rubber and rubber products, automobiles and automobile parts, and customer electronics. <\/p>\n<p><strong>*Translated by Gabriel Pomerancblum<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"credits-overlay\" data-target=\".wp-image-191883\">Ivan Bueno\/APPA<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the fourth week of August, exports came out to USD 5.145 billion and imports clocked in at 2.991 billion, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2316,"featured_media":191883,"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-58077","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-economy"},"wps_subtitle":"In the fourth week of August, exports came out to USD 5.145 billion and imports clocked in at 2.991 billion, according to the Brazilian Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services.","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58077","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=58077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58077\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191883"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}