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Weekly balance has a positive balance of US$ 5.07 billion.
Until the second week of April this year, Brazilian shipments and products to other countries grew by 6.3%, reaching US$ 14.59 billion. In the same period, imports fell by 3.1%, totaling US$ 9.52 billion. Thus, the trade balance reached US$ 5.07 billion, which represented an increase of 30% in relation to that recorded in April 2022 and the trade flow increased by 2.4%, reaching US$ 24.11 billion. The numbers were updated this Monday (17) by Secex, linked to the MDIC.
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In exports, until the second week of April 2023, a growth of 21.6% was recorded in sales by agricultural companies (total of US$ 4.74 billion); and 12% in the Extractive Industry, which reached US$ 3.14 billion. The Manufacturing Industry fell by 5 % (total of US$ 6.62 billion).
In imports, in the same period, the performance of imports by sector of economic activity was as follows: drop of 24.5% in Agriculture, which totaled US$ 0.17 billion; growth of 0.7% in Extractive Industry, which reached US$ 0.68 billion and, finally, a drop of 3% in Manufacturing Industry, which reached US$ 8.59 billion.
YTD
From January to the second week of April 2023, exports grew by 0.4% compared to the daily average from January to April last year, and totaled US$ 90.76 billion. Imports, in the period under analysis, fell by 3.3% and totaled US$ 69.85 billion. Thus, there was a surplus of US$ 20.91 billion, with growth of 15.3%, and the trade flow registered a drop of 1.2%, reaching US$ 160.62 billion.
Source: datagro
