By Flávia Said Brasília, 04/09/2025 - The Brazilian trade balance registered a trade surplus of US$ 6.133 billion in August, following a positive balance of US$ 7.075 billion in July. According to data from the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (Secex/MDIC) released recently, the value was achieved with exports of US$ 29.861 billion and imports of US$ 23.728 billion. In the last week of August, the surplus was US$ 1.474 billion, with sales of US$ 7.145 billion and purchases of US$ 5.671 billion. Year-to-date, the positive balance is US$ 42.812 billion. In exports, comparing the value from January to August 2025 (US$ 227.58 billion) with the same period in 2024 (US$ 226.54 billion) showed a growth of 0.5%. Regarding imports, there was a growth of 6.9% between the value of the first eight months of 2025 (US$ 184.77 billion) compared to the same period in 2024 (US$ 172.91 billion). The result for the last month came slightly above ...