Household consumption, another key element of the economy, rose 0.5% compared to the previous quarter.<\/p>\n\n\nIn comparison to the same period last year, GDP advanced 2.2% year-on-year, while in the accumulated figures for the last twelve months it rose by 3.2%.\n\nThe second quarter was marked by the beginning of trade tensions triggered by the US government’s announcement of a minimum 10% tariff on imports from all countries.\n\nFurthermore, also during that period, the White House doubled to 50% the tariff on steel, of which Brazil is one of the main exporters to the North American nation.\n\nDespite the commercial challenge, in the second quarter, Brazilian exports rose 0.7% compared to the first three months of the year, while imports fell 2.9%, according to data presented this Tuesday.\n\nIn this context, the Government improved in July by one tenth the country’s growth forecast for this year to 2.5%, a figure that is still far from the 3.4% recorded in 2024. ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The Brazilian economy grew 0.4% in the second quarter of the year, a sharp slowdown from the 1.4% recorded in the first quarter, the government reported on Tuesday. The gross domestic product (GDP) of Latin America’s largest economy was boosted by services, which account for about two-thirds of the productive sector, and advanced 0.6% compared […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133537,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-481038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-218G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","dum_api":{"author_name":"Paola Castillo","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/cropped-paola-castillo-f-96x96.jpg","categories_name":["Uncategorized"],"featured_media_url":null},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481038","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133537"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481038"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481038\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481038"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481038"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481038"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}