Tag: trade surplus

• Friday, January 20th 2023 - 10:07 UTC

  Argentina's trade surplus in 2022 shows significant drop

  

  Argentina recorded a trade surplus in 2022 of US$ 6.923 billion, according to a National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) report released Thursday. It was a significant setback from the US$ 14.751 billion recorded in 2021, particularly after additional restrictions were placed on imports in the second semester after Super Economy Minister Sergio Massa took office.

• Friday, December 23rd 2022 - 14:15 UTC

  Brazil's trade surplus in 2023 expected to reach US$ 72 billion

  

  Despite the global economic slowdown, the Brazilian Foreign Trade Association, AEB, indicated that the largest economy in South America is projected to have a higher trade surplus in 2023. Next year's positive result is expected to reach US$ 71,9 billion, which would be 14,3% higher than the US$ 62,9 billion this year.

• Monday, April 11th 2022 - 23:39 UTC

  Argentina foresees foreign trade surplus for 2022, study shows

  

  Due to the international increase in the price of agricultural products, Argentine traders foresee a trade surplus of US$ 14.1 billion for this year, because while imports would total US$ 70.6 billion, exports would reach US$ 84.4, according to a report by the Department of Information and Economic Studies of the Rosario Stock Exchange (BCR).

• Monday, January 17th 2022 - 09:00 UTC

  Paraguay closes 2021 with sizeable trade surplus

  

  The year 2021 closed for Paraguay with a trade surplus of US $ 941 million, according to the Advance Foreign Trade Report (RCE) for December 2021, published by the Undersecretary of State for the Economy (SSEE) of the Finance Ministry.

• Thursday, January 13th 2022 - 10:02 UTC

  Record 2021 trade surplus in Brazil, but complaints about the economy becoming commodities dependent

  

  Brazil managed a US$ 61,01 billion surplus in its trade balance in 2021, which is 21% higher than the US$ 50 billion of 2020 and the best performance since current stats were officially recorded beginning 1989.

• Thursday, May 6th 2021 - 23:59 UTC

  Falklands economy boasts healthy trade surplus but income inequality increases

  

  The value of goods exported from the Falkland Islands recorded a compound annual growth rate of 8.1% between 2010 and 2019, according to the Falkland Islands Government’s State of the Economy report.

• Tuesday, January 5th 2021 - 09:07 UTC

  Brazil posted a trade surplus of US$ 51 billion in 2020. Overall trade down 7,7%

  

  Brazil posted a US$ 51 billion trade surplus last year, official figures showed on Monday, a 6% increase from the year before as the COVID-19 pandemic hit imports harder than exports.

• Thursday, November 5th 2020 - 09:10 UTC

  Brazil's trade surplus reaches US$ 47,6 billion in ten months

  

  The Brazilian Ministry of Economy released the result of the country's October trade balance, US$ 5.5 billion surplus, but lower than market expectations. The result was again leveraged by the significant retraction in imports, while market expectations were forecasting a US$ 6.1 billion surplus.

• Tuesday, September 8th 2020 - 09:50 UTC

  Chile post trade surplus in August but exports fell 10.8% and imports 22.4%

  

  Chile posted a trade surplus of US$ 904 million in August, the central bank said on Monday, with a drop in levels versus a year earlier of both exports and imports for the month.

• 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.