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Brazil's trade surplus increases
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BRASILIA, Brazil - Brazil says its trade surplus for the first six months of 2009 came to $14 billion — nearly 24 percent more than the amount registered in the same period last year.
The Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade says in a Wednesday statement that between January and June of this year Latin America's biggest country exported US$70 billion in goods and imported $56 billion.
In the first half year of 2008, Brazil's trade surplus came to $11.3 billion, exports of $90.6 billion and imports of $79.3.
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