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Trade between Brazil and the United Kingdom

In 2024, Brazil exported $3.9 billion to the United Kingdom and imported $3.2 billion. Brazil ran a surplus of $685 million with the United Kingdom, compared with a surplus of $270 million in 2019. The United Kingdom was Brazil’s 19th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Brazil was the United Kingdom’s 33rd (0.6%).

Summary

Brazil → United Kingdom
$3.9billion
United Kingdom → Brazil
$3.2billion
Brazil’s balance
$685million

Balance

Brazil’s trade balance with the United Kingdom

Trade between Brazil and the United Kingdom grew 2.7-fold since 1995

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

  • Exports 3.9
  • Imports 3.2
  • Balance +0.7

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$1.6 billion$1 billion$546 million
1996$1.6 billion$1.5 billion$137 million
1997$1.5 billion$1.6 billion-$60 million
1998$1.5 billion$1.6 billion-$97 million
1999$1.6 billion$1.3 billion$273 million
2000$1.9 billion$1.3 billion$589 million
2001$2.1 billion$1.4 billion$747 million
2002$2.3 billion$1.4 billion$905 million
2003$2.7 billion$1.3 billion$1.3 billion
2004$2.9 billion$1.5 billion$1.5 billion
2005$3.4 billion$1.5 billion$1.9 billion
2006$3.7 billion$1.5 billion$2.1 billion
2007$4.6 billion$2.1 billion$2.6 billion
2008$5 billion$2.8 billion$2.2 billion
2009$4.4 billion$2.5 billion$1.9 billion
2010$5.7 billion$3.3 billion$2.4 billion
2011$5.8 billion$3.5 billion$2.2 billion
2012$4.9 billion$3.7 billion$1.2 billion
2013$4.3 billion$4 billion$351 million
2014$4.1 billion$3.7 billion$420 million
2015$3.3 billion$3.1 billion$164 million
2016$3.1 billion$2.5 billion$686 million
2017$3.1 billion$2.7 billion$418 million
2018$3.1 billion$2.8 billion$284 million
2019$3.1 billion$2.9 billion$270 million
2020$2.8 billion$2.5 billion$340 million
2021$3.3 billion$2.9 billion$458 million
2022$4.4 billion$3.2 billion$1.2 billion
2023$4.2 billion$3.4 billion$801 million
2024$3.9 billion$3.2 billion$685 million

What they sell each other

What Brazil sells to the United Kingdom

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

  1. Gold$675 million · 17.2%
    8 tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  2. Soybeans$291 million · 7.4%
    625 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  3. Coffee$253 million · 6.4%
    62 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  4. Prepared meat$245 million · 6.3%
    63 thousand tonnes
  5. Fruit and vegetable juices$223 million · 5.7%
    77 thousand tonnes
  6. Chemical wood pulp$161 million · 4.1%
    231 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  7. Cane and beet sugar$140 million · 3.6%
    342 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  8. Melons, watermelons and papayas$111 million · 2.8%
    120 thousand tonnes
  9. Refined petroleum$109 million · 2.8%
    93 thousand tonnes · Brazil’s destinations
  10. Cured and smoked meat$107 million · 2.7%
    38 thousand tonnes

What the United Kingdom sells to Brazil

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

  1. Spirits$198 million · 6.1%
    51 thousand tonnes
  2. Medicines in measured doses or retail packs$184 million · 5.7%
    3 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  3. Natural gas and LPG$165 million · 5.1%
    369 thousand tonnes
  4. Flexible metal tubing$157 million · 4.9%
    9 thousand tonnes
  5. Valves and taps$128 million · 4%
    1 thousand tonnes
  6. Vaccines, blood and antisera$105 million · 3.2%
    101 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  7. Bombs, missiles and ammunition$94 million · 2.9%
    8 tonnes
  8. Cars$92 million · 2.8%
    3 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  9. Crude petroleum$90 million · 2.8%
    127 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  10. Diesel engines$63 million · 1.9%
    3 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from Santos to Felixstowe.

The estimated sea route between Santos and Felixstowe is 5,477 nautical miles (10,144 km) long: ≈ 12.5–16.5 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Strait of Dover.

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$4.8 billion · 67.4%
  2. Air$2.3 billion · 32.6%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United Kingdom was Brazil’s 19th largest trading partner (1% of its trade), and Brazil was the United Kingdom’s 33rd (0.6%).

The United Kingdom in Brazil’s trade
1.1%
The United Kingdom’s rank among Brazil’s partners
19th
Brazil in the United Kingdom’s trade
0.6%
Brazil’s rank among the United Kingdom’s partners
33rd

Compare with

Other partners of Brazil

Other partners of the United Kingdom

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.