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Rio de Janeiro . Brazil's trade balance recorded a surplus of $ 30,055 million in the first half of 2018, but 17% over the same period last year, reported Wednesday the Brazilian Ministry of Industry. and Foreign Trade.
The ministry revealed in a statement that Brazilian exports amounted to US $ 113.834 million between January and June, while imports reached US $ 83.779 million.
According to the same source, the iron and soybean deliveries surplus in the first half of the year is the second best since 1989 in Brazil, when it began to be counted, barely exceeded by the US $ 36.221 million recorded between January and June last year
The surplus of the first half of the year is the second best since 1989 in Brazil, when it began to be counted barely exceeded $ 36.221 million. Between January and June of last year
According to the government, the result of this year was not better because of the strike that thousands of truckers conducted for 11 days at the end of the May and paralyzed the country. , the Brazilian trade balance recorded a surplus of $ 5.882 million, or 18.1% less than during the same period last year and 1.7% less than in May, due of the truckers' strike, which left the largest part of the country, and whose effects were felt during the first days of the month.
"The month of June was still affected, at the beginning, by the effects of the paralysis of the truckers.Exports, during the first two weeks of June, grew slower, recovering from the third week.The import, from the second week of June, has already returned to the level we observed before, "said Minister of Industry and Foreign Trade, Abrao Neto, in the presentation of the balance.
The June result was the second best for the month, just over 7,100 million US dollars in the same month last year
In the sixth month of the year, the Brazilian exports totaled $ 20,202 million, while imports reached $ 14.3 billion. Brazilian Minister of Industry and Trade Marcos Jorge pointed out that the negative effects of the truckers' paralysis should no longer be noticed, and he calculated that the Brazilian trade surplus this year would be d & # 39; 39; about 50,000 million dollars 66,900 million US dollars last year
"With the recovery of the economy, the market is more active and naturally more important, it decreases the balance of the balance ", as He called Jorge.
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