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How dependent is Iran on Brazil?

In 2024, Brazil sold $3 billion to Iran, 13.3% of its imports, ranking 3rd among its suppliers. Its share was 4.4% in 2019 and 3% in 1995. In 5 products it sells more than 50% of what Iran buys of them (in 4, more than 75%); what Iran buys from Brazil in those products (dominated value) adds up to $3 billion, 13.3% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
13.3%
Value imported
$3billion
Rank among its suppliers
3rd
Products where it sells over 50%
5
Products where it sells over 75%
4
Dominated value
$3billion
Share of total imports
13.3%

Trend

Trend in shares

Brazil went from 3% to 13.3% of what Iran buys

Share (%)

  • Brazil 13.3%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952563%12
19961841.7%19
19973512%18
19987104.3%10
19996064%9
20004212.5%14
20016823.3%10
20026532.6%11
20031,0733.4%10
20041,2173%10
20051,0992.5%12
20061,5684.5%8
20071,8353.7%10
20081,1322%12
20091,2172.7%11
20102,0042.8%11
20112,3043%9
20122,1773.2%7
20131,6872.5%8
20141,4542.1%9
20151,6743%8
20162,1823.9%8
20172,4533.8%7
20182,2754.3%6
20192,1414.4%5
20201,1082.7%6
20211,9663.7%5
20224,2767.5%4
20232,2987.8%4
20243,00413.3%3

Products where Brazil sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
CornBrazil85.9%over 75%Romania · 11.2%$923 million
Soybean meal and pelletsBrazil71.7%Turkey · 15.5%$830 million
SoybeansBrazil75.4%over 75%Canada · 24.5%$827 million
Cane and beet sugarBrazil99.2%over 75%India · 0.74%$419 million
Live cattleBrazil97.7%over 75%United States · 2.3%$3 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 19.5% of what the world exports of corn; next come United States (23.9%), Argentina (16.3%) and Ukraine (13.1%). The rest of the world exported 39.4 times what Iran buys from Brazil.
  • 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 28.4 times what Iran buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 55.4% of what the world exports of soybeans; next come United States (28.9%), Paraguay (4.1%) and Canada (3%). The rest of the world exported 43.3 times what Iran 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 52.5 times what Iran buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 6.8% of what the world exports of live cattle; next come Canada (14.8%), France (14.2%) and Mexico (11%). The rest of the world exported 3,826.3 times what Iran buys from Brazil.

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

Seen from Brazil

Iran is Brazil’s 29th-largest customer, with 0.84% 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.