It was $ 15.8 billion that left the country in the first quarter, surpassing the year of the pandemic; March departure was $ 8.3 billion
Brazil records the largest dollar escape in the historical series in 2025. In the 1st quarter, the balance of exchange flow was negative in US $ 15.8 billion. It surpassed the departure of the US currency in 2020, the year of the Covid-19 pandemic. The data is from (Central Bank). This is the report (PDF – 97 kb).
The country’s departure from dollars was the most intense of the historical series, which began in 1982. In the first quarter of 2020, at the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, the currency flow was negative at $ 11.4 billion.
Currency flow is disclosed weekly by the monetary authority, by the report “Contracted exchange movement”. It records the entry and departure of the dollar into the country through the sum of foreign currency purchase and sale contracts from commercial banks with the non -financial market.
The dollar departure was $ 23.1 billion on the financial channel, which includes data from profit and dividends abroad and others. The commercial segment (exports and imports) had a net entry of US $ 7.3 billion.
Foreign currency escape is recorded during the increase in uncertainties and tensions regarding US policy of taxation of international commercial.
The previous record was from the 1st quarter of 1999. He added $ 13.7 billion in the period. On the other hand, the largest entry of funds from January to March was in 2011, when it totaled US $ 35.6 billion.
In March, the country registered the departure of US $ 8.3 billion. It was also the largest withdrawal of resources from the historical series, which began in 1982. It had been $ 6.6 billion in 2020, the 1st month of the Covid-19 pandemic and responsible for the previous record.
The Central Bank said there was a $ 12.8 billion output on the financial account. In the commercial account, which includes exports and imports, the positive balance of $ 4.5 billion.
METHODOLOGY
The survey does not consider exchange exchange contracts as well as interventions and external operations of the Central Bank. The commercial account excludes the following items:
- exports of goods;
- imports of goods;
- operations back-to-back;
- international orders;
- adjustments in business transactions;
- acquisition of goods delivered in the country;
- and acquisition of goods delivered abroad.
The financial segment includes income information, such as remittances of profits and dividends or investments.
