In the first week of August, the Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus of US $ 637 million, the result of exports of US $ 3.435 billion and imports of US $ 2.798 billion.

In the year, exports totaled US $ 110 billion and imports, US $ 81.154 billion, with a surplus of US $ 28.866 billion.The data was released, on Monday (8), the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC).

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Exports in the week daily average US $ 687 million with growth of 27.8%  in exports of semi-manufactured goods, compared to the same period last year.This performance was driven mainly by sales of gold, raw sugar, copper cathodes, cellulose, iron, steel, leather and fur.

Manufactured also showed high, and recorded an increase of 7.7% due to sales of cargo vehicles, refined sugar, aluminum oxides and hydroxides, hoses, iron and steel, pumps, compressors and parts, machinery for landscaping.

Compared to July, there was also a positive change in exports of  
semi-manufactured goods (15.6%).

The average daily performance of imports in the first week of August 2016 was US $ 559.6 million, 8.1% below the average recorded in August last year (US $ 609.3 million). In this comparison, fell spending, especially with vehicles and parts (-35%), pharmaceuticals (-19.7%), machinery and equipment (-17.2%), optical and precision instruments (-10.8% ) and plastic products (-6.9%).