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Trade between Brazil and Switzerland

In 2024, Brazil exported $1.9 billion to Switzerland and imported $3.2 billion. Brazil ran a deficit of $1.3 billion with Switzerland, compared with a deficit of $1.2 billion in 2019. Switzerland was Brazil’s 29th largest trading partner (0.8% of its trade), and Brazil was Switzerland’s 30th (0.7%).

Summary

Brazil → Switzerland
$1.9billion
Switzerland → Brazil
$3.2billion
Brazil’s balance
-$1.3billion

Balance

Brazil’s trade balance with Switzerland

Trade between Brazil and Switzerland grew 3.2-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 1.9
  • Imports 3.2
  • Balance -1.3

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$472 million$1.1 billion-$620 million
1996$269 million$807 million-$537 million
1997$356 million$916 million-$560 million
1998$313 million$937 million-$624 million
1999$307 million$820 million-$512 million
2000$538 million$867 million-$329 million
2001$465 million$1 billion-$558 million
2002$472 million$898 million-$426 million
2003$349 million$1.1 billion-$729 million
2004$449 million$1.3 billion-$826 million
2005$630 million$1.2 billion-$616 million
2006$704 million$1.3 billion-$631 million
2007$927 million$2.2 billion-$1.3 billion
2008$1.2 billion$2.4 billion-$1.3 billion
2009$1.2 billion$2.1 billion-$906 million
2010$1.4 billion$2.9 billion-$1.4 billion
2011$1.8 billion$2.9 billion-$1.1 billion
2012$2.9 billion$2.8 billion$107 million
2013$2.9 billion$3 billion-$40 million
2014$2.1 billion$2.8 billion-$691 million
2015$1.7 billion$2.4 billion-$619 million
2016$1.3 billion$2 billion-$724 million
2017$1.4 billion$2.1 billion-$699 million
2018$1.9 billion$2.4 billion-$431 million
2019$1.5 billion$2.7 billion-$1.2 billion
2020$1.7 billion$2 billion-$331 million
2021$2.2 billion$2.3 billion-$152 million
2022$1.9 billion$2.5 billion-$595 million
2023$1.9 billion$2.9 billion-$1 billion
2024$1.9 billion$3.2 billion-$1.3 billion

What they sell each other

What Brazil sells to Switzerland

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

  1. Gold$1.1 billion · 60.1%
    19 tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  2. Coffee$310 million · 16.6%
    61 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  3. Poultry meat$62 million · 3.3%
    19 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  4. Fruit and vegetable juices$44 million · 2.4%
    16 thousand tonnes
  5. Orthopedic and hearing devices$23 million · 1.2%
    59 tonnes
  6. Unwrought aluminum$18 million · 0.97%
    7 thousand tonnes
  7. Rice$17 million · 0.91%
    42 thousand tonnes
  8. Ferroalloys$17 million · 0.88%
    2 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  9. Airplanes and helicopters$16 million · 0.85%
    14 tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  10. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$14 million · 0.72%
    22 tonnes · Switzerland’s sources

What Switzerland sells to Brazil

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

  1. Vaccines, blood and antisera$858 million · 26.9%
    182 tonnes · Switzerland’s destinations
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$364 million · 11.4%
    602 tonnes · Switzerland’s destinations
  3. Hydrazine and hydroxylamine derivatives$282 million · 8.8%
    4 thousand tonnes
  4. Nucleic acids and other heterocycles$188 million · 5.9%
    1 thousand tonnes
  5. Refined petroleum$89 million · 2.8%
    79 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s sources
  6. Nitrogen heterocyclic compounds$78 million · 2.4%
    1 thousand tonnes
  7. Amide compounds$74 million · 2.3%
    12 thousand tonnes
  8. Orthopedic and hearing devices$66 million · 2.1%
    34 tonnes
  9. Steam boilers$65 million · 2%
    4 thousand tonnes
  10. Other wristwatches$48 million · 1.5%
    16 tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Santos to Rotterdam (Netherlands).

The estimated sea route between Santos and Rotterdam (Netherlands) is 5,566 nautical miles (10,307 km) long: ≈ 13–16.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover.

Switzerland is landlocked: it ships through Rotterdam (Netherlands).

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$1.3 billion · 26%
  2. Air$3.7 billion · 74%

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

How much each matters to the other

Switzerland was Brazil’s 29th largest trading partner (0.8% of its trade), and Brazil was Switzerland’s 30th (0.7%).

Switzerland in Brazil’s trade
0.8%
Switzerland’s rank among Brazil’s partners
29th
Brazil in Switzerland’s trade
0.7%
Brazil’s rank among Switzerland’s partners
30th

Compare with

Other partners of Brazil

Other partners of Switzerland

Sources and methodology

Sources and licenses

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.