The timely information on foreign trade for August 2022 registered a trade deficit of 5,498 million dollars, a balance that compares with the deficit of 3,744 million dollars in the same month of 2021. In the first eight months of 2022, the trade balance presented a deficit of 24,402 million dollars. In August 2022, the value of merchandise exports reached 50,670 million dollars, a figure made up of 47,455 million dollars of non-oil exports and 3,215 million dollars of oil companies. Thus, in the reference month, total exports increased 25.2% at the annual rate, the result of increases of 25.6% in non-oil exports and ... (full story)