Trade Balance: Year-to-date surplus through the third week of June reaches US$40.3 billion.

In the 3rd week of June 2026, the trade balance registered a surplus of US$ 3.1 billion and a trade flow of US$ 15.58 billion, resulting from exports worth US$ 9.3 billion and imports of US$ 6.3 billion. In the month, exports totaled US$ 25.6 billion and imports US$ 18 billion, with a positive balance of US$ 7.6 billion and a trade flow of US$ 43.6 billion. In the year, exports total US$ 174.1 billion and imports US$ 133.9 billion, with a positive balance of US$ 40.3 billion and a trade flow of US$ 308.1 billion. These and other results were published this Monday (22) by the Secretariat of Foreign Trade of the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (Secex/MDIC). In exports, comparing the averages up to the 3rd week of June 2026 (US$ 1.828 billion) with that of June 2025 (US$ 1.451 billion), there was a growth of 26.0%. Regarding imports, there was a growth of 10.7% when comparing the averages up to the 3rd week of June 2026 (US$ 1.283 billion) with that of June 2025 (US$ 1.158 billion). Thus, up to the 3rd week of June 2026, the daily average of the total trade flow was US$ 3,112.32 million and the balance, also by daily average, was US$ 545.43 million. Comparing this period with the average of June 2025, there was a growth of 19.2% in the trade flow.

Exports and Imports by Sector

In the accumulated period up to the 3rd week of June 2026, compared to the same month of the previous year, the performance of the exporting sectors by daily average was as follows: growth of US$ 75.68 million (21.9%) in Agriculture; of US$ 220.17 million (70.3%) in Extractive Industry and of US$ 79.01 million (10.0%) in products of the Manufacturing Industry. In the accumulated period up to the 3rd week of June 2026, compared to the same month of the previous year, the performance of the importing sectors by daily average was as follows: growth of US$ 5.48 million (11.6%) in Extractive Industry and of US$ 118.77 million (11.0%) in products of the Manufacturing Industry; there was a decrease of US$ 0.18 million (0.8%) in Agriculture.

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.