With six working days, the first two weeks of November had a surplus of US $ 2.665 billion, a result of exports of US $ 7,137 billion and imports of US $ 4.472 billion, according to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC) . In the accumulated of the year, exports reach US $ 206,217 billion and imports, US $ 155,916 billion, with a positive balance of US $ 50,301 billion.
Monthly Review
In exports, compared to averages up to the second week of November (US $ 1.2 billion) with the daily average shipped in November 2017 (US $ 834.2 million), there was growth of 42.6%, due to the increase in sales of the three categories of products: basic products (69.7%, mainly due to crude oil, soybeans, iron ore, corn, beef and chicken), semimanufactured products (55.4% , on account of cellulose, semimanufactured iron and steel, ferroalloys, raw cane sugar, gold in semi-manufactured forms) and manufactured products (17.7%, caused by fuel oils, gasoline, earthmoving machinery and equipment, parts of aviation engines and turbines, vulcanized rubber tubes and accessories).
Compared to last October, there was a growth of 18.9%, due to the increase in sales of semimanufactured products (47.1%), basic products (17.1%) and manufactured goods (12.7%).
In imports, the daily average up to the second week of November this year (US $ 745.4 million) was 13.4% higher than the November average of the previous year (US $ 657.1 million). In this comparison, expenditures increased mainly with fertilizers (57.4%), organic and inorganic chemicals (34.2%), plastics and works (20.8%), electrical and electronic equipment (10.8%) and mechanical equipment (7%).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.