Tag: global transactions

• Thursday, September 3rd 2020 - 08:49 UTC

  Brazil with record trade surplus in August, despite an overall fall in global transactions

  

  Brazil obtained a record trade surplus of US$ 6,6 billion during the month of August, the highest for the month since 1989. However overall dropped with exports sliding 5.5% to US$ 17,741bn and imports, 25,1%, to US$ 11,133bn. In eight months the trade surplus reached US$ 36,594bn, the third-best historically in the last forty years.