Agribusiness drives export performance in the 1st week of December

Brazil's trade balance registered a trade surplus of US$ 1.923 billion in the first week of December. According to data from the Foreign Trade Secretariat of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC) released this Monday (8), the value was achieved with exports of US$ 7.430 billion and imports of US$ 5.507 billion. In the year, from January to December 2025, the surplus totals US$ 59.762 billion, compared to US$ 74.176 billion in the same period of 2024. This year's result is due to US$ 325.252 billion in exports and US$ 265.490 billion in imports. By the first week of December, compared to the same period of December 2024, exports grew by 25.4%. The performance of the sectors was as follows: a growth of 58.9% in Agriculture, which totaled US$ 1.505 billion; a growth of 42.8% in Extractive Industry, which reached US$ 1.724 billion and, finally, a growth of 11.3% in Manufacturing Industry, which reached US$ 4.158 ...