TRADE BALANCE REGISTERS SURPLUS OF 64.4% AND REACHES US$ 34.28 BI YTD

22/06/2021

In the third week of June, the trade balance registered a surplus of US$ 34.28 billion in the accumulated result for the year, increasing 64.4% in the daily average YoY. The trade flow (sum of exports and imports) reached US$ 219.76 billion, a growth of 31.2%.

Exports in 2021 totaled US$ 127.02 billion, an increase of 34.9%, while imports rose 26.5% to US$ 92.74 billion. The data were released this Monday (21/6) by the Foreign Trade Secretariat (Secex) of the Ministry of Economy.

In the accumulated result for the month, exports grew 69.9% and totaled US$18.38 billion, while imports rose 65.2% to US$11.23 billion. As a result, the trade balance registered a surplus of US$ 7.15 billion, an increase of 77.7%, and the trade flow reached US$ 29.61 billion, increasing 68.1%.

In the third week of June alone, exports totaled US$6.758 billion, while imports totaled US$4.194 billion. Thus, the trade balance registered a surplus of US$ 2.564 billion and the trade flow reached US$ 10.952 billion.