Weekly Report - 30 November 2017 (WR-17-47)

BRAZIL | Brazil registers record trade surplus. Brazil recorded a trade surplus of US$2.93bn in November, according to data released by the industry and trade ministry (MDIC). This brings Brazil’s accumulated trade surplus for the first 11 months of the year to a record US$61.39bn. That is already bigger than the entire trade surplus for last year (US$47.7bn), which was itself the largest since financial records began in 1989.