NEWS IN ENGLISH – Foreign trade registers a deficit in third week of October

25/10/2011 10:02

Daniel Lima       Reporter Agência Brasil


Brasília – With exports of $5.277 billion and imports of $5.581 billion between October 17 and 23, Brazil had a weekly foreign trade deficit of $304 million, the first weekly deficit since the end of September, when there was a deficit of $584 million.


For the month of October, up to the 23rd, there was a trade surplus of $572 million, with total exports of $15.087 billion and imports of $14.515 billion.


For the year, Brazil is running a trade surplus of $23.607 billion, with total exports of $205.086 billion and imports of $181.479 billion.


Allen Bennett – translator/editor The News in English
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