THE trade balance registered surplus of 1.48 billion dollars during the second week of December, reported the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (Secex/Doctor). This amount resulted from $6.94 billion in exports and $5.46 billion in imports during the period.
As of December, the balance has already accumulated a surplus of $3.28 billion, and for the year the balance is positive at $61.1 billion.
The daily export average through the second week of December increased by 20.4% compared to the same month of the previous year, reaching $1.43 billion. The increase is due to sales of extractive industry (+52%), followed by agriculture (+41.1%) and processing industry (+5%).
The daily average of imports increased by 13.9% on the same basis of comparison, to 1.10 billion dollars. Growth was driven by purchases by the extractive industry (+28.9%) and accompanied by the manufacturing industry (+13.6%) and agriculture (+12.6%).
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