Other valuable shipments from Brazil range from crude oil and aircraft to staples including sugar, poultry, coffee and corn.
The following list shows which Brazilian exports generated the most sales revenue during 2017. Unlike most information currently available on the web, the items below are detailed at the 4-digit tariff code level.
Granular data on export sales can help entrepreneurs identify precisely which products in which Brazil has strong competitive advantages over other nations, and where there are opportunities for innovation.
For the most recent four-digit HTS code data, please see the Searchable List of Brazil’s Most Valuable Exports Products section in the Brazil’s Top 10 Exports article. For a link to that article, see the See also paragraph above Research Sources below.
Highest Value Brazilian Export Products
Below are the 20 highest value export products shipped from Brazil in 2017. Shown within brackets for each item is the change in value year over the 5-year period starting in 2013.
- Soya beans: US$25.7 billion (up 33% since 2016)
- Iron ores, concentrates: $19.2 billion (up 44.5%)
- Crude oil: $16.6 billion (up 65%)
- Sugar (cane or beet): $11.4 billion (up 9.4%)
- Cars: $6.7 billion (up 42.8%)
- Poultry meat: $6.6 billion (up 7.3%)
- Chemical woodpulp (non-dissolving): $5.9 billion (up 13.6%)
- Soya-bean oil-cake, other solid residues: $5 billion (down -4.2%)
- Corn: $4.6 billion (up 23.8%)
- Coffee: $4.6 billion (down -5%)
- Frozen beef: $4.4 billion (up 22.2%)
- Aircraft, spacecraft: $3.6 billion (down -17.9%)
- Turbo-jets: $3.2 billion (up 28.9%)
- Iron or non-alloy steel products (semi-finished): $3.2 billion (up 67.8%)
- Aluminum oxide/hydroxide: $2.8 billion (up 17.2%)
- Trucks: $2.8 billion (up 36.3%)
- Gold (unwrought): $2.8 billion (down -3.2%)
- Copper ores, concentrates: $2.5 billion (up 28.9%)
- Iron ferroalloys: $2.5 billion (up 17.2%)
- Heavy machinery (bulldozers, excavators, road rollers): $2.2 billion (up 65.5%)
For these top Brazilian export products, the average change was a 24.7% improvement from 2013 to 2017.
Semi-finished iron or non-alloy steel products posted the greatest increase in export sales up 67.8% over the 5-year period.
In second place was the heavy machinery category including bulldozers, excavators and road rollers via a 65.5% improvement.
Brazilian crude oil appreciated by 65%, while exported iron ores and concentrates increased in value by 44.5%.
Four top Brazilian export categories declined in value namely unwrought gold (down -3.2%), soya-bean oil-cake and other solid residues (down -4.2%), coffee (down -5%) and the aircraft and spacecraft category (down -17.9%).
See also Brazil’s Top 10 Imports, Brazil’s Top 10 Exports and Brazil’s Top Trade Partners
Research Sources:
International Monetary Fund, World Economic Outlook Database (GDP based on Purchasing Power Parity). Accessed on February 4, 2018
The World Factbook, Field Listing: Exports and World Population, Central Intelligence Agency. Accessed on February 4, 2018
Trade Map, International Trade Centre, www.intracen.org/marketanalysis. Accessed on February 4, 2018