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How dependent is the Netherlands on Brazil?

In 2024, Brazil sold $11.6 billion to the Netherlands, 1.8% of its imports, ranking 12th among its suppliers. Its share was 1.2% in 2019 and 1.5% in 1995. In 3 products it sells more than 50% of what the Netherlands buys of them (in 0, more than 75%); what the Netherlands buys from Brazil in those products (dominated value) adds up to $1 billion, 0.16% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
1.8%
Share of its imports from outside the EU
3.4%
Value imported
$11.6billion
Rank among its suppliers
12th
Products where it sells over 50%
3
Products where it sells over 75%
0
Dominated value
$1billion
Share of total imports
0.2%

Trend

Trend in shares

Brazil went from 1.5% to 1.8% of what the Netherlands buys

Share (%)

  • Brazil 1.8%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952,5741.5%12
19962,9961.7%12
19973,0881.7%14
19982,4251.4%16
19992,2851.2%19
20002,5891.3%16
20012,7271.4%15
20022,7321.4%15
20033,6641.6%16
20044,3811.5%15
20054,7381.4%14
20065,2971.4%14
20078,0131.8%11
20089,7371.9%11
20096,6991.7%11
20108,5761.9%11
201111,5012%10
201212,8742.3%9
201312,4602.3%9
201410,2261.8%12
20157,3891.6%13
20166,7361.5%15
20177,0661.4%16
20187,5111.3%16
20196,7401.2%18
20206,1931.2%19
20218,5921.4%15
202211,2111.6%13
202311,2781.7%12
202411,6071.8%12

Products where Brazil sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Soybean meal and pelletsBrazil67.8%Germany · 6%$804 million
Pig ironBrazil73%South Africa · 17.6%$151 million
Gallium, germanium, chromium and other metalsBrazil66.9%Russia · 13.5%$75 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 India (2.9%). The rest of the world exported 28.1 times what the Netherlands buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 36.5% of what the world exports of pig iron; next come Russia (19.2%), Ukraine (10.5%) and Indonesia (8.8%). The rest of the world exported 20.8 times what the Netherlands buys from Brazil.
  • Brazil sells 13.7% of what the world exports of gallium, germanium, chromium and other metals; next come China (27.5%), United States (10.6%) and Germany (8.9%). The rest of the world exported 31 times what the Netherlands buys from Brazil.

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

Seen from Brazil

The Netherlands is Brazil’s 4th-largest customer, with 3.2% 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.