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Trade between Australia and Brazil

In 2024, Australia exported $1.5 billion to Brazil and imported $909 million. Australia ran a surplus of $571 million with Brazil, compared with a surplus of $417 million in 2019. Brazil was Australia’s 30th largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and Australia was Brazil’s 45th (0.4%).

Summary

Australia → Brazil
$1.5billion
Brazil → Australia
$909million
Australia’s balance
$571million

Balance

Australia’s trade balance with Brazil

Trade between Australia and Brazil grew 3.7-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Australia’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.5
  • Imports 0.9
  • Balance +0.6

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$285 million$353 million-$68 million
1996$386 million$307 million$79 million
1997$330 million$270 million$60 million
1998$337 million$210 million$127 million
1999$291 million$242 million$50 million
2000$381 million$424 million-$43 million
2001$327 million$291 million$37 million
2002$254 million$288 million-$34 million
2003$337 million$373 million-$36 million
2004$517 million$461 million$56 million
2005$760 million$602 million$158 million
2006$824 million$668 million$156 million
2007$910 million$811 million$99 million
2008$1.5 billion$1.2 billion$357 million
2009$909 million$641 million$268 million
2010$1.4 billion$709 million$687 million
2011$1.7 billion$933 million$756 million
2012$1.3 billion$655 million$651 million
2013$1.2 billion$587 million$655 million
2014$1.2 billion$520 million$646 million
2015$1.1 billion$493 million$623 million
2016$841 million$572 million$269 million
2017$1.3 billion$583 million$685 million
2018$1.1 billion$626 million$456 million
2019$1 billion$598 million$417 million
2020$564 million$590 million-$27 million
2021$1.1 billion$634 million$505 million
2022$2.9 billion$924 million$2 billion
2023$2.1 billion$931 million$1.2 billion
2024$1.5 billion$909 million$571 million

What they sell each other

What Australia sells to Brazil

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Coal$1.2 billion · 79.2%
    5.5 million tonnes · Australia’s destinations
  2. Coke$35 million · 2.4%
    101 thousand tonnes
  3. 3 thousand tonnes
  4. 147 tonnes
  5. 5 tonnes
  6. 449 tonnes
  7. Frozen beef$14 million · 0.97%
    1 thousand tonnes
  8. Malt$13 million · 0.85%
    19 thousand tonnes
  9. 755 tonnes
  10. 6 thousand tonnes

What Brazil sells to Australia

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Bulldozers and excavators$147 million · 16.1%
    11 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  2. Coffee$120 million · 13.2%
    28 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  3. 465 tonnes · Australia’s sources
  4. Crude petroleum$66 million · 7.3%
    69 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  5. Chemical wood pulp$51 million · 5.6%
    67 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  6. Buses$32 million · 3.5%
    2 thousand tonnes
  7. Preserved fruit and nuts$24 million · 2.7%
    7 thousand tonnes
  8. Welded steel pipes$23 million · 2.5%
    3 thousand tonnes
  9. 4 thousand tonnes
  10. Airplanes and helicopters$19 million · 2.1%
    24 tonnes · Brazil’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Sydney to Santos.

The estimated sea route between Sydney and Santos is 9,588 nautical miles (17,757 km) long: ≈ 22–28.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Cape of Good Hope.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$2.1 billion · 88.5%
  2. Air$274 million · 11.5%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Brazil was Australia’s 30th largest trading partner (0.4% of its trade), and Australia was Brazil’s 45th (0.4%).

Brazil in Australia’s trade
0.4%
Brazil’s rank among Australia’s partners
30th
Australia in Brazil’s trade
0.4%
Australia’s rank among Brazil’s partners
45th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.