Short-Term Debt
In 2008, short-term debt from commercial banks primarily related to export financing in the amount of R$1,955.5 million (R$449.9 thousand in 2007), denominated in U.S. dollars and with interest rates from 4.75% to 5.47% per annum, and short-term debt in the amount of R$443.3 million denominated in reais, of which R$365.3 million bears interest at the rate of 100% of the CDI rate plus interest of 3.0% per annum and R$78.0 million bears interest of the rate of 108% of the CDI rate.