How dependent is South Korea 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 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 37 times what South Korea buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 12.5% of what the world exports of ethyl alcohol (ethanol); next come United States (32.9%), Netherlands (11.5%) and Belgium (6.2%). The rest of the world exported 28.2 times what South Korea buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 26.3% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come United States (12.9%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 78.6 times what South Korea buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 30.7% of what the world exports of raw cotton; next come United States (26.8%), Australia (13.7%) and India (5.5%). The rest of the world exported 166.7 times what South Korea buys from Brazil.

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

South Korea is Brazil’s 11th-largest customer, with 1.9% of its exports.

• Trade between South Korea and Brazil
• Who does South Korea rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of South Korea on China
• Dependence of South Korea on the United States
• Dependence of South Korea on Australia
• Dependence of South Korea on Japan
• Dependence of South Korea on Vietnam
• Dependence of South Korea on Switzerland
• Dependence of South Korea on Mexico
• Trade profile of South Korea
• 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.