Exports reach US$247 billion by the third week of September

The Trade Balance recorded a surplus of US$ 3 million and a trade flow of US$ 2024 billion in the third week of September 271, resulting from exports worth US$ 12,5 billion and imports of US$ 6,4 billion. These were some of the results presented this week by the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Commerce and Services (Secex-MDIC).

In September, up to the 3rd week, exports totaled US$ 20,4 billion and imports US$ 16,9 billion, with a positive balance of US$ 3,5 billion and a trade flow of US$ 37,4 billion.

From January to the third week of September, exports totaled US$247,5 billion and imports US$189,9 billion. The surplus is US$57,6 billion and the trade flow is US$437,3 billion.

Monthly Comparison

In exports, comparing the averages up to the 3rd week of September/2024 (US$ 1,366 billion) with that of September/2023 (US$ 1,436 billion), there was a drop of 4,9%. In relation to imports, there was growth of 15,7%: US$ 976,6 million in 2023 against US$ 1,130 billion in 2024.

Thus, until the 3rd week of September/2024, the daily average of the trade flow totaled US$ 2,496 billion. The balance, also by daily average, was US$ 235,69 million. Comparing this period with the average of September/2023, there was a growth of 3,5% in the trade flow.

Sectors

In the accumulated period up to the 3rd week of September/2024, the performance of exports in the sectors, based on the daily average, showed a drop of US$ 55,4 million (16,9%) in Agriculture and US$ 110,79 million (28,6%) in Extractive Industry, but growth of US$ 95,64 million (13,5%) in products from the Manufacturing Industry.

In imports, the performance by daily average showed growth of US$ 2,87 million (14,8%) in Agriculture; US$ 29,76 million (56,1%) in Extractive Industry and US$ 120,42 million (13,4%) in Manufacturing Industry products.