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How dependent is Italy on Brazil?

In 2024, Brazil sold $4.6 billion to Italy, 0.78% of its imports, ranking 29th among its suppliers. Its share was 0.74% in 2019 and 1% in 1995. In 4 products it sells more than 50% of what Italy buys of them (in 1, more than 75%); what Italy buys from Brazil in those products (dominated value) adds up to $704 million, 0.12% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
0.8%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
1.8%
Value imported
$4.6billion
Rank among its suppliers
29th
Products where it sells over 50%
4
Products where it sells over 75%
1
Dominated value
$704million
Share of total imports
0.1%

Trend

Trend in shares

Brazil went from 1% to 0.78% of what Italy buys

Share (%)

  • Brazil 0.78%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952,0641%15
19961,9090.92%20
19971,8620.89%20
19982,1010.98%18
19991,9210.87%20
20002,3791%18
20012,0870.9%20
20022,0750.85%21
20032,4740.85%22
20043,4591%22
20053,5800.96%22
20064,2861%23
20075,0881%22
20085,5841%25
20093,5330.85%25
20104,3380.89%25
20115,8641.1%21
20124,7070.98%22
20134,3000.91%25
20144,0410.85%25
20153,5040.85%26
20163,6070.88%24
20173,6880.81%28
20183,8570.76%29
20193,5360.74%29
20203,3360.78%28
20214,9120.87%27
20225,7370.84%29
20234,8090.76%30
20244,6180.78%29

Products where Brazil sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
SoybeansBrazil51.2%United States · 29.3%$609 million
Quartz and quartziteBrazil90.3%over 75%Germany · 2.7%$54 million
Peanut oilBrazil74.3%Nicaragua · 21.8%$39 million
Ivory, tortoiseshell, horns and antlers, unworkedBrazil58.3%Spain · 26.7%$2 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 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 58.8 times what Italy buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 10.9% of what the world exports of quartz and quartzite; next come China (18.8%), United States (17.8%) and India (17.4%). The rest of the world exported 20.8 times what Italy buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 15.3% of what the world exports of peanut oil; next come India (46.6%), Argentina (12.2%) and Belgium (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 15.8 times what Italy buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 3% of what the world exports of ivory, tortoiseshell, horns and antlers, unworked; next come New Zealand (40%), Russia (14.9%) and India (4.8%). The rest of the world exported 91.2 times what Italy buys from Brazil.

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

Seen from Brazil

Italy is Brazil’s 16th-largest customer, with 1.3% 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.