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How dependent is France on Brazil?

In 2024, Brazil sold $3.7 billion to France, 0.5% of its imports, ranking 38th among its suppliers. Its share was 0.5% in 2019 and 0.72% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what France buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what France buys from Brazil in those products (dominated value) adds up to $815 million, 0.11% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
0.5%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
1.1%
Value imported
$3.7billion
Rank among its suppliers
38th
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$815million
Share of total imports
0.1%

Trend

Trend in shares

Brazil went from 0.72% to 0.5% of what France buys

Share (%)

  • Brazil 0.5%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19951,9970.72%25
19961,8870.67%23
19971,7910.66%25
19981,8370.63%22
19991,6950.58%28
20002,1900.7%25
20012,2320.73%24
20022,0440.65%28
20032,4680.67%25
20042,8490.65%29
20053,1990.66%28
20063,4410.64%30
20074,3800.71%25
20085,3840.78%24
20093,7760.69%27
20104,4590.74%23
20115,2560.74%28
20124,9890.76%27
20134,0190.61%34
20143,5530.54%34
20152,9540.53%32
20162,8460.51%33
20173,0610.5%37
20183,2970.51%33
20193,1570.5%37
20202,2750.4%35
20212,8200.4%34
20223,8300.48%34
20233,6710.47%36
20243,7280.5%38

Products where Brazil sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Soybean meal and pelletsBrazil57%Belgium · 10.5%$773 million
Self-propelled trains and tramsBrazil69%Saudi Arabia · 21.9%$19 million
Raw silkBrazil74.3%China · 11.5%$13 million
Passenger rail coachesBrazil63.4%Ireland · 21.6%$10 million
Yerba mateBrazil52.3%Argentina · 18.8%$1 million

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 28.7% of what the world exports of soybean meal and pellets; next come Argentina (26.7%), United States (18.3%) and Netherlands (3%). The rest of the world exported 30.5 times what France buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 1.3% of what the world exports of self-propelled trains and trams; next come Spain (13.7%), Poland (12.6%) and Switzerland (11.6%). The rest of the world exported 261.4 times what France buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 5.2% of what the world exports of raw silk; next come China (47.8%), Vietnam (25%) and Italy (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 27.3 times what France buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 0.92% of what the world exports of passenger rail coaches; next come Spain (17.3%), Germany (14.9%) and United States (13.5%). The rest of the world exported 186.2 times what France buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 47.1% of what the world exports of yerba mate; next come Argentina (39.8%), Paraguay (5%) and Syria (1.7%). The rest of the world exported 116.1 times what France buys from Brazil.

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

Seen from Brazil

France is Brazil’s 24th-largest customer, with 1% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

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.