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The following is a list of the exports of Brazil. Data is for 2012, in billions of United States dollars, as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity. Currently the top twenty exports are listed. #
From Portugal's colonization of Brazil (1500–1822) until the late 1930s, the Brazilian economy relied on the production of primary products for exports. In the Portuguese Empire , Brazil was a colony subjected to an imperial mercantile policy, which had three main large-scale economic production cycles – sugar, gold and from the early 19th ...
Through its programmes and services, ApexBrasil supports approximately one third of Brazil's annual exports and contributes to facilitate at least one fourth of its foreign direct investment (FDI) inward flows each year. More than 15 thousand Brazilian companies are directly supported by the agency, virtually all of them micro, small or medium ...
China's commerce chamber CFNA said on Wednesday that starting Aug. 2 restrictions on Brazilian poultry sales only apply to products from Rio Grande do Sul state, which had an isolated outbreak of ...
In 2016, Brazilian beef exports in natura totaled 1.08 million tons with a value of R $4.35 billion. [158] [159] In 2019, beef was the 6th most important product in Brazil's export basket (almost 3% of Brazilian exports, totaling U $6.5 billion). [160] [161]
An external cause identified was the slowdown of the Chinese economy, Brazil's largest trading partner. [9] This slowdown led to a sharp drop in commodity prices, which are the basis of Brazilian exports. As a result, Brazil's trade surplus plummeted and some exporting companies, such as Usiminas and Vale, suffered heavy losses.
The Brazilian economy grew considerably in the second half of the nineteenth century. [6] Coffee was the mainstay of the economy, accounting for 63% of the country's exports in 1891, and 51% between 1901 and 1910. [6] However, sugar, cotton, tobacco, cocoa, and, during the turn-of-the-century rubber boom, rubber were also important. [6]
In that year, the Brazilian economy grew 1.0% in real terms according to revised figures of the IBGE. The per capita accounts of the GDP were R$22,813.47 or US$11.521,95 in nominal terms, and Int$14,537.40 in PPP terms. The Brazilian population, in 2012, was 193,300,291, ranking 5th worldwide and totaling 2.84% of the world's population.