The trade balance in the second week of May, with five working days, registered a surplus of US $ 1.747 billion, the result of exports of US $ 4.370 billion and imports of US $ 2.622 billion. In the month, exports totaled US $ 8.349 billion and imports, US $ 5.368 billion, with a surplus of US $ 2.980 billion. In the year, exports totaled US $ 64.290 billion and imports, US $ 48.066 billion, with a surplus of US $ 16.224 billion.

 

The average daily exports of the second week reached $ 873.9 million, 9.8% above the average of US $ 795.8 million in the first week due to the increase in manufactured exports (23.1%), rising US $ 261.4 million to $ 321.7 million, due mainly aircraft, passenger cars, hoses, iron / steel, aluminum oxides and hydroxides, cargo vehicles, earthmoving machinery, auto parts.

 

The export of commodities increased 1.1%, from US $ 393.8 million to $ 436.4 million for soybeans account in grain, crude oil, iron ore, chicken, coffee beans, raw cotton), while decreased sales of semi-manufactured goods (-19.0%), from $ 124.5 million to $ 100.9 million, due to semi- finished products of iron / steel, gold semimanufaturada form, iron -ligas, hides and skins, soybean oil).

 

On the import side, pointed to a drop of 4.5% over the same comparative period (daily average of the second week, US $ 524.5 million on average for the first week, US $ 549.2 million), mainly explained , the decrease in spending on consumer electronics devices, organic chemicals and inorganic chemicals, fertilizers, plastics and articles and pharmaceuticals.

 

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In exports, compared to average daily until the second week of May (US $ 834.9 million) with a daily average of May last year (US $ 838.5 million), there was a decrease of 0.4%, due to the falling commodities (-3.3%, from $ 429.5 million to US $ 415.1 million), due mainly to tobacco leaves, coffee beans, crude oil and copper ore.

 

On the other hand, increased exports of semi-manufactured products (13.2% from US $ 99.6 million to $ 112.7 million, the increase in gold semimanufaturada form, raw aluminum, copper cathodes, raw sugar , cellulose) and manufactured goods (0.4% from US $ 290.5 million to $ 291.6 million, due to flexible pipes of iron / steel, aircraft, orange juice, not frozen, automotive engine chassis, passenger cars, plastic polymers).

 

For April 2016, the growth was 8.6%, due to the increase in sales of the three product categories: semi-manufactured goods (22.8% from US $ 91.8 million to US $ 112.7 million), manufactured goods (7.3% from US $ 271.7 million to US $ 291.6 million) and basic (7.3% from US $ 387.0 million to US $ 415.1 million).

 

In imports, the average daily until the second week of May 2016, of $ 536.8 million, was 23.4% below the average May / 2015 (US $ 700.5 million). In this comparison, decreased spending, especially with steel (-34.3%), fuels and lubricants (-32.9%), machinery and equipment (-30.9%), pharmaceuticals (-28.5%), appliances electronics (-28.4%) and motor vehicles and parts (-27.3%). Compared to April this year, growth was 2.1%, the increase in organic and inorganic chemicals (28.4%), steel (19.6%), optical and precision instruments (13.5%), plastics and construction (7.9%) and fertilizers (6.4%).

 

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