Summary
- Share of its imports
- 23.5%
- Value imported
- $14.2billion
- Rank among its suppliers
- 1st
- Products where it sells over 50%
- 118
- Products where it sells over 75%
- 54
- Dominated value
- $7.4billion
- Share of total imports
- 12.3%
Trend
Trend in shares
Brazil went from 20.9% to 23.5% of what Argentina buys
Share (%)
- Brazil 23.5%
Source: CEPII BACI
Show the numbers
| Year | Value (USD millions) | Share | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | 4,309 | 20.9% | 2 |
| 1996 | 5,585 | 23.1% | 1 |
| 1997 | 7,014 | 23% | 1 |
| 1998 | 7,085 | 22.2% | 1 |
| 1999 | 5,598 | 21.6% | 1 |
| 2000 | 6,438 | 25.3% | 1 |
| 2001 | 5,271 | 25.7% | 1 |
| 2002 | 2,508 | 27.5% | 1 |
| 2003 | 4,706 | 33.6% | 1 |
| 2004 | 7,570 | 34.2% | 1 |
| 2005 | 10,573 | 36.7% | 1 |
| 2006 | 11,910 | 35.6% | 1 |
| 2007 | 14,698 | 33.7% | 1 |
| 2008 | 17,973 | 32.7% | 1 |
| 2009 | 12,015 | 31.3% | 1 |
| 2010 | 18,018 | 32.6% | 1 |
| 2011 | 22,280 | 31.3% | 1 |
| 2012 | 17,727 | 26% | 1 |
| 2013 | 19,260 | 26.1% | 1 |
| 2014 | 14,407 | 21.9% | 1 |
| 2015 | 13,058 | 21.5% | 1 |
| 2016 | 13,724 | 24.2% | 1 |
| 2017 | 17,917 | 26.2% | 1 |
| 2018 | 15,504 | 23.6% | 1 |
| 2019 | 10,120 | 20.4% | 1 |
| 2020 | 8,631 | 20.1% | 2 |
| 2021 | 12,328 | 19.7% | 2 |
| 2022 | 15,936 | 19.9% | 2 |
| 2023 | 17,236 | 23.4% | 1 |
| 2024 | 14,219 | 23.5% | 1 |
Products where Brazil sells more than half
| Product | Supplier | Share | Second | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cars | Brazil | 80%over 75% | Mexico · 5.2% | $2.3 billion |
| Trucks | Brazil | 71.7% | Mexico · 10.5% | $655 million |
| Iron ore | Brazil | 87.4%over 75% | Canada · 8% | $557 million |
| Tractors | Brazil | 88.6%over 75% | China · 4.7% | $463 million |
| Spark-ignition engines | Brazil | 83.2%over 75% | United States · 6.3% | $282 million |
| New tires | Brazil | 52.4% | China · 28.6% | $244 million |
| Coated flat steel | Brazil | 89.6%over 75% | South Korea · 5.5% | $166 million |
| Harvesters and farm machinery | Brazil | 51.8% | United States · 15% | $139 million |
| Kraft paper and paperboard | Brazil | 85.2%over 75% | Chile · 2.9% | $128 million |
| Chassis with engines | Brazil | 92.4%over 75% | India · 5.7% | $122 million |
| Cocoa butter | Brazil | 92%over 75% | Peru · 5.7% | $110 million |
| Coffee | Brazil | 69% | Switzerland · 12.6% | $109 million |
| Aluminum sheet | Brazil | 81.3%over 75% | China · 10.9% | $106 million |
| Coated paper | Brazil | 63% | China · 10.2% | $104 million |
| Vehicle bodies and cabs | Brazil | 89.5%over 75% | Mexico · 3.9% | $98 million |
| Treated paper and cellulose wadding | Brazil | 61.5% | China · 14.2% | $89 million |
| Hot-rolled flat steel | Brazil | 88.4%over 75% | China · 6.3% | $83 million |
| Unwrought zinc | Brazil | 95.9%over 75% | Peru · 2.2% | $80 million |
| Polypropylene | Brazil | 56% | South Korea · 6.4% | $79 million |
| Alloy steel sheet | Brazil | 54% | Germany · 28.6% | $76 million |
| Spark plugs, starters and ignition equipment | Brazil | 51.5% | China · 13.9% | $72 million |
| Semi-finished steel | Brazil | 98.7%over 75% | Luxembourg · 0.77% | $72 million |
| Synthetic paints and varnishes | Brazil | 68.8% | Germany · 6.8% | $64 million |
| Pork | Brazil | 98.5%over 75% | Italy · 0.72% | $58 million |
| Cocoa powder | Brazil | 68.7% | Uruguay · 16% | $52 million |
| Other processed tobacco | Brazil | 92.3%over 75% | Hungary · 2.4% | $51 million |
| Cocoa paste | Brazil | 68.2% | Ecuador · 16.6% | $50 million |
| Instant coffee and tea extracts | Brazil | 90.1%over 75% | France · 3.9% | $47 million |
| Alloy steel bars and sections | Brazil | 59.9% | China · 20.1% | $45 million |
| Chocolate | Brazil | 72.6% | Ecuador · 7.4% | $38 million |
and 88 more
A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.
Are there other suppliers in the world?
- Brazil sells 0.55% of what the world exports of cars; next come Germany (17.4%), Japan (12.3%) and China (9.1%). The rest of the world exported 416.3 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 1.3% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), United States (11.3%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 277.7 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 20.8% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Australia (54.2%), Canada (4.4%) and South Africa (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 238.2 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 2% of what the world exports of tractors; next come Mexico (15.9%), Germany (14.8%) and China (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 148.7 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 0.88% of what the world exports of spark-ignition engines; next come United States (15.8%), Germany (11.5%) and Mexico (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 188.6 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 1.2% of what the world exports of new tires; next come China (22.8%), Thailand (8%) and Japan (6%). The rest of the world exported 407.1 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 0.7% of what the world exports of coated flat steel; next come China (27.6%), South Korea (10.3%) and Germany (7.2%). The rest of the world exported 347 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 2.1% of what the world exports of harvesters and farm machinery; next come Germany (16.9%), China (15.9%) and United States (13.8%). The rest of the world exported 184.1 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 3% of what the world exports of Kraft paper and paperboard; next come United States (22.7%), Sweden (16%) and Austria (6%). The rest of the world exported 114.3 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
- Brazil sells 9.3% of what the world exports of chassis with engines; next come Sweden (14.9%), China (11.2%) and India (9.5%). The rest of the world exported 28 times what Argentina buys from Brazil.
Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.
Seen from Brazil
Argentina is Brazil’s 3rd-largest customer, with 4% of its exports.
Links
Sources and method
Sources and licenses
- CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
- Natural Earth · Public domain
Methodology
The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.
Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.
The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.
Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.
The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.
Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.