How dependent is the United Arab Emirates 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 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 18.8 times what the United Arab Emirates 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 27.1 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 27.5% of what the world exports of frozen beef; next come Australia (15.5%), United States (12.6%) and India (9.8%). The rest of the world exported 50.3 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 28.2% of what the world exports of chemical wood pulp; next come United States (11.1%), Canada (9.6%) and Chile (7.4%). The rest of the world exported 127.8 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 7.7% of what the world exports of pork; next come United States (18%), Spain (16.6%) and Germany (11.1%). The rest of the world exported 974.7 times what the United Arab Emirates buys from Brazil.

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

The United Arab Emirates is Brazil’s 17th-largest customer, with 1.3% of its exports.

• Trade between the United Arab Emirates and Brazil
• Who does the United Arab Emirates rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on China
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on India
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Saudi Arabia
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Australia
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Switzerland
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on the United States
• Dependence of the United Arab Emirates on Hong Kong
• Trade profile of the United Arab Emirates
• 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.