Ten Days into 2006 and Brazil's Surplus Already Over US$ 1.2 Billion
Written by Stênio Ribeiro
Wednesday, 18 January 2006
Brazil's foreign trade surplus for the first ten days of January stands at US$ 1.280 billion, with exports at US$ 4.192 billion and imports at US$ 2.912 billion.
The numbers are from the Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, which reports that during the second week of January exports were down 2.63%, while imports rose over 11%, compared to the first week of January.
The trade surplus in the first week was US$ 745 million, and US$ 535 million in the second week of January. Compared to January 2005, exports are up over 18%, and imports up over 16%.
There is a normal, seasonal drop in exports at the beginning of the year. The trade surplus in December 2005 was US$ 4.346 billion, compared to US$ 2.183 billion in January 2005.
Although exports during the first week of January were down 14.2% compared to the first week in December, Brazil still exported a total of US$ 2.124 billion in goods during the first five days of January 2006, an increase of 19.8% over the first week of 2005.
not surprising. With all the redtape getting things, money, etc. into this country, it's a wonder there are any imports at all!!
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Yet they call it unfair written by Guest,
January 19, 2006
I'm tired of everyone saying the USA practices unfair trade. What is unfair about the USA 60-70 BILLION DOLLAR monthly trade deficit? Why would anyone in Brazil complain? Yet, sadly that is what i hear when i'm there 10 months out of the year.
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Unfair,yes, are the brazilians ! written by Guest,
January 19, 2006
- The USA is their biggest trading partner. - Brazil has their biggest trade surplus with the USA.
- Brazil is subsidising not only their agriculture, but ALL their export industries.
But they only criticize the U.S. and EU agriculture.
What they do is right and when others do the same, the others are completely wrong.
Strange conception of air trade...as they say !
But they have the same erroneous conception in : - corruption - impunity - wealth inequality - vote buying - red tape - hunger by the millions - under nourrished citizens by the millions and millions - lack of education - lack of helathcare - lack of infrastructure and I could continue for hours.
They dont realize yet, that if and when the USA decide to stop supporting the world growth at their own expenses, many developing countries, Brazil first, wll simply COLLAPSE.
They would sell less to ALL developing countries, and also sell less to developed countries. China is a good example. they have an overall trade surplus of US$ 100 billions but a trade surplus with the USA of US$ 200 billions. This means that China, not including the USA has trade deficit of US$ 100 billions.
So everyone could see the snowball effect on the developing countries when the USA will say and explain loudly what FAIR trade is !
At one point in the future they will say : ENOUGH IS ENOUGH !
And guess what will happen when the USA will have their next recession or only just a slow or no growing economy.
The castle cards will crash....miserably. Brazil and China are at the top of the castle cards. Harder the fall will be !
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The small, coastal town of Condé is located just a twenty minute's drive from João Pessoa, the capital of Paraíba. The Northeast of Brazil has historically been a place of encounter and mixing between peoples. For millenia groups of indigenous people fished, farmed, migrated and sometimes fought along this large, fertile area. 
The Brazilian diplo-MÁ-cia (bad diplomacy) carries on its accelerated course towards the non-acknowledgment of human rights, although sometimes it takes pleasure in saying that it does precisely the opposite. The visit of Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, is another example of a diplomatic omission that verges on hypocrisy. 
On July 4, 2006, representatives of Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay met in Caracas to sign the protocol for the entrance of Venezuela into the Southern Common Market (Mercosur). After two and a half years, the protocol was approved by the legislative bodies of Argentina and Uruguay, and as of now it may be only days away from being ratified by the continent's economic megalith, Brazil. 
Some sectors of the fight against AIDS have suggested that Thabo Mbeki, the former president of South Africa, committed genocide through his absence from the fight against the illness in his country throughout his two terms. 
One hundred and eleven years after Brazil abolished slavery, the number of workers deprived of their freedom is still huge. They raise cattle, produce charcoal, sugar cane or timber. Some of them, most undocumented Bolivians, work in basements of small apparel factories in São Paulo and other metropolis. 
On November 7, 2009 a few friends and I had an opportunity to take a look inside a Brazilian jail outside the city of Rio de Janeiro. We were able to take some amateur footage of our experience on video (see link below). It's no surprise, of course, that the typical Brazilian jail lacks some of the functionality of those in North America or Europe, but our experience that day was quite shocking. 
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