Brazilian Products

09/02/2008
The Brazilian exports registered, in August, the second best monthly balance of the year, with sales of US$ 19,747 billion, against US$ 20,451 billion of the previous month. In the daily average, the sales of August were better than the one of July, but the previous month had more two useful days, says Welber Barral, secretary of External Trade of the Ministry of the Development, Industry and External Trade. 
 
According him, the exports of January to August added US$ 130,843 billion, with growth of 29,3% on the same period of 2007, “above, therefore, of the world medium growth of 15,3% a year”. He also detached that in the accumulated of the last 12 months the sales add US$ 189 billion, very close of the annual goal of US$ 190 billion, "what should to do revision of the goal next month." 
 
Barral said that “as much the exports as the imports they had record evolutions”. The current balance of August, in the value of US$ 2,269 billion, was 35,92% smaller than in August of last year; and in the accumulated of the year the superavit adds US$ 16,907 billion, with down of 38,43% in relation to equal period of 2007. 
 
The secretary of External Trade said that the prominences in the exports of manufactured products in August, compared to the same month of last year were gasoline (+121,4%), ethyl alcohol (+94,1%), oxides and hydroxides of aluminum (+74,2%), tractors (+48,2%) and airplanes (+35,8%). As for the semi-manufactured, the largest external sales were of iron / steel products (+231,7%), melted iron (+153,4%), iron-leagues (+76,3%) and soy oil (+55,2%). 
 
Among the basic products, the largest increases happened in the sales of copper ore (+224,1%), petroleum in brute (+144,1%), iron ore (+110,1%), soy in grain (+75,1%), chicken meat (+ 69%), bovine meat (+49,3%), coffee in grain (+30,7%), suine meat  (+29,4%) and soy crumb (+23,5%). 
 
Besides the growth of traditional products of the line of exports, Welber Barral highlighted, in the group of the manufactured ones, that “there was significant enlargement of items with small participation in the list of Brazilian sales outside, what shows the continuity of the process of diversification of the Brazilian line of exports”. Among them, flexible tubes, caustic soda, residues of petroleum as bun and polish, carbon, yeasts, horticultural products, even flour and even bacon. 
 
The secretary affirmed that “the sales were larger in all the main economical blocks”, with prominences to Asia (+76,3%), especially to China, for bill mainly of iron ore, soy in grain, metallurgical, fuels and meats. There was considerable growth also to Africa (+68%) in gasoline, sugar, meats, ores, machines and equipments; to West Europe (+52,4%), Mercosul (+40,9%) and Middle East (+31,7%). 
 
The smallest growth taxes were of the countries more directly affected for the financial crisis in the real estate market; reason because the sales for the European Union only increased 26% and to the United States 18,8%. In spite of that, the USA continue being our largest buyers (US$ 2,411 billion in the month), following by China (US$ 1,972 billion), Argentina (US$ 1,694 billion), Netherlands (US$ 995 million) and Germany (US$ 786 million). 
 
Barral stood out although there was expressive growth of the exports also for no-traditional markets in the Brazilian line, like Iceland, Virgin Islands, Pakistan, Luxembourg, Zimbabwe and Chade, as answer to the effort of diversification of the external trade.   
  
 
Source: Agencia Brasil

11/19/2008
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