How dependent is Canada on Brazil?

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%.

• Brazil sells 17% of what the world exports of aluminum oxide and hydroxide; next come Australia (30.5%), China (9.8%) and Indonesia (9.4%). The rest of the world exported 11.7 times what Canada buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 47.2% of what the world exports of cane and beet sugar; next come Thailand (6.2%), India (4.9%) and France (4%). The rest of the world exported 30.8 times what Canada buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 11.9% of what the world exports of semi-finished steel; next come Russia (19.8%), China (10.7%) and Indonesia (7.8%). The rest of the world exported 116.1 times what Canada buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 2.2% of what the world exports of bauxite (aluminum ore); next come Guinea (70.6%), Australia (17.8%) and China (1.9%). The rest of the world exported 174 times what Canada buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 8.2% of what the world exports of kaolin; next come United States (33.2%), United Kingdom (13.2%) and China (11.2%). The rest of the world exported 56.1 times what Canada buys from Brazil.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Canada is Brazil’s 12th-largest customer, with 1.9% of its exports.

• Trade between Canada and Brazil
• Who does Canada rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of Canada on the United States
• Dependence of Canada on China
• Dependence of Canada on Switzerland
• Dependence of Canada on Ireland
• Dependence of Canada on Portugal
• Dependence of Canada on Mexico
• Dependence of Canada on Sweden
• Trade profile of Canada
• Trade profile of Brazil
• All countries

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.