Brazil Trade Balance

Recent readings

Source: Ministério do Desenvolvimento, Indústria, Comércio e Serviços (MDIC), Secretaria de Comércio Exterior: Comex Stat. Newest 36 readings shown.

Definition and source

Goods trade balance of Brazil: total exports FOB minus total imports FOB, US dollars, not seasonally adjusted, as the trade ministry's Comex Stat system publishes the two flows; SOTW subtracts them exactly. Recent months are revised as the ministry updates its data; release times and vintages are unknown.

Adjustment

not seasonally adjusted

Adjustment basis

Comex Stat publishes registered trade values; no adjustment is stated or applied.

Measure

Merchandise trade balance: total exports FOB minus total imports FOB, Brazil, with all countries

Growth basis

level (balance), calculated by SOTW: (exports FOB - imports FOB) / 1,000,000

Admitted history

Every published month from 1997-01 (the API's monthly origin)

Consistency check

Exports 37807241261 minus imports 28489685220 US dollars (FOB), as Comex Stat publishes them.

Calculation

SOTW: exports FOB minus imports FOB, as Comex Stat publishes them, in million US dollars, (exports FOB - imports FOB) / 1,000,000

Publisher status

No per-observation status supplied; finality and revision stage are unknown.

Reuse scope

Brazil federal open-data policy (Decreto 8.777/2016), as recorded for IBGE: selected official numerical facts in SOTW's own schema and presentation, credited to the ministry.

Also reviewed on SOTW: OECD goods balance · US dollars. The OECD's copy of the same balance in billions of US dollars; it usually reaches SOTW about a month after the ministry's release.