Brazilian Exports Fall Close to 9% When Compared to 2006
Written by Stênio Ribeiro
Monday, 02 April 2007
Brazil's trade balance result (exports minus imports) in the month of March reached US$ 3.323 billion, with growth of 15.3% over the figure for February, but 8.56% retraction when compared to March last year. With this, the trade balance surplus for the year has reached US$ 8.689 billion, 6% less than in the fist quarter of 2006.
March presented the greatest trade flow this year, both in sales to the foreign market and in purchases of foreign products. Exports generated revenues of US$ 12.855 billion, whereas imports totalled US$ 9.532 billion, according to a report disclosed today, April 2, by the Brazilian Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade.
Brazilian exports this year reached US$ 33.919 billion, rising 15.2% in comparison to the first quarter of last year, whereas imports reached US$ 25.221 billion, rising 25.3% in the period.
The official estimate is that foreign sales should reach US$ 152 billion in the year, with a surplus of around US$ 40 billion.
ABr: Thanks for the data written by aes,
April 02, 2007
What is amazing is that the cost of goods to foreign buyers has incresed do to the increase in the strength of the Real vis a vis the dollar, but in spite of that exports rose 15%. That the increase of imports by 25% means that these goods were bought at a 25% discount (more or less), than last year. This is the time to buy heavy machinery, capital goods with the strengthened Real. That exports were up inspite of the increased strength of the Real means that Brazilian exported products have been selling too cheaply over the past four years.
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... written by adrianerik,
April 02, 2007
That exports were up inspite of the increased strength of the Real means that Brazilian exported products have been selling too cheaply over the past four years.
This is not necessarily true. We really need to see which exports have gone up and which exports have suffered. If most of the growth is due to an increase in a few industries while other industrires are suffering than that means that a few are earning huge profits while many are closing and increasing unemployement.
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Brazil's trade balance result (exports minus imports) in the month of March reached US$ 3.323 billion, with growth of 15.3% over the figure for February, but 8.56% retraction when compared to March last year. With this, the trade balance surplus for the year has reached US$ 8.689 billion, 6% less than in the fist quarter of 2006.
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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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