	brazil s sept  surplus highest of the year brazil s september  surplus was the best so far this year totalling billion dlrs compared with billion dlrs in august and mln dlrs in september last year banco do brasil s foreign  department cacex director namir salek said in a news conference september exports were billion dlrs slightly down from billion dlrs in august imports in september amounted to billion dlrs against billion dlrs in august salek said the accumulated surplus in the jan sept period was billion dlrs compared with billion dlrs in a similar period coffee accounted with mln dlrs of exports up from mln dlrs in august and mln in september salek said the cacex director said he expected the country s  surplus to average mln dlrs in the remaining three months of the year estimating the year s overall surplus to reach billion dlrs from billion dlrs worth of exports and billion dlrs of imports he attributed the good surplus on exports of manufactured and semimanufactured goods he mentioned car exports which accounted alone with sales of mln dlrs in the jan sept period against mln dlrs in a similar period reuter 
