The Brazilian trade balance registered a surplus of US $ 374 million up through the second week of March of this year, with a trade flow of US$ 83.651 billion, according to data released by the Ministry of Economy’s Foreign Trade Secretariat (SECEX) on the 15th of March. Exports totaled US$ 42.013 billion, with the daily average up 12.1%, and imports rose 22.4% and reached US$ 41.639 billion.
In the accumulated result for the first two weeks of March, exports grew 30.5% to US$ 10.88 billion, while imports rose 61.8% and totaled US$ 10.67 billion. Thus for March, the trade balance registered a surplus of US$ 207.6 million and the trade flow reached US$ 21.56 billion, an increase of 44.3%.
During the second week of March, the trade flow reached US$ 10.016 billion, with US$ 5.368 billion in exports and US$ 4.649 billion in imports, generating a trade surplus of US $ 719.2 million.
