How dependent is Uruguay on Brazil?

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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 1.3% of what the world exports of trucks; next come Mexico (19.7%), United States (11.3%) and Germany (7.6%). The rest of the world exported 788.9 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 4.9% of what the world exports of fresh beef; next come United States (13.2%), Australia (10.9%) and Canada (8.3%). The rest of the world exported 215.9 times what Uruguay 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 286.4 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 20.8% of what the world exports of iron ore; next come Australia (54.2%), Canada (4.4%) and South Africa (4.1%). The rest of the world exported 1,455.3 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 2% of what the world exports of tractors; next come Mexico (15.9%), Germany (14.8%) and China (10.3%). The rest of the world exported 797.6 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 47.1% of what the world exports of yerba mate; next come Argentina (39.8%), Paraguay (5%) and Syria (1.7%). The rest of the world exported 1.7 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 0.71% of what the world exports of furniture; next come China (30.8%), Vietnam (10.4%) and Italy (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,875.5 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 0.34% of what the world exports of toilet paper and tissues; next come China (17.5%), Germany (9.1%) and Poland (6.3%). The rest of the world exported 1,090.3 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 0.5% of what the world exports of welded steel pipes; next come Italy (14.9%), China (14.6%) and Germany (6.5%). The rest of the world exported 875.1 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.
• Brazil sells 2.3% of what the world exports of ceramic tiles; next come Italy (22.9%), Spain (18.6%) and China (17.3%). The rest of the world exported 666.6 times what Uruguay buys from Brazil.

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

Uruguay is Brazil’s 31st-largest customer, with 0.78% of its exports.

• Trade between Uruguay and Brazil
• Who does Uruguay rely on?
• Who does Brazil rely on?
• Dependence of Uruguay on China
• Trade profile of Uruguay
• 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.