What does Brazil import the most?

Brazil's largest import is petroleum oils, worth $15.5B in 2025, 5% of its total imports of $309B.

Does Brazil run a trade surplus or deficit?

Brazil ran a trade surplus of $65.3B in 2025: it exported $374B of goods and imported $309B.

Alloy steel sheet is Brazil's fastest-growing top import by value, up 87% year over year, reaching $818M in 2025.

$309B

2025 · Annual

Brazil yearly trade, 2015-2025

Brazil monthly trade through July 2026

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Petroleum oils	$15.5B	5.0%	+3.1%
2	Vehicle parts and accessories	$9.4B	3.0%	+1.8%
3	Biologics	$8.5B	2.8%	+12%
4	Medicaments for retail sale	$8.4B	2.7%	+24%
5	Passenger vehicles	$8.1B	2.6%	-8.8%
6	Refined industrial goods	$6.7B	2.1%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$5.7B	1.8%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$4.6B	1.5%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$3.6B	1.2%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$2.5B	0.8%	-5.4%

#	Name	Value 2025	Share	YoY
1	Alloy steel sheet	$818M	0.3%	+87%
2	Platinum group metals	$1.5B	0.5%	+57%
3	Motorcycles and Mopeds	$495M	0.2%	+50%
4	Non-alcoholic beverages	$456M	0.1%	+47%
5	Elevators and conveyors	$574M	0.2%	+46%
6	Refined industrial goods	$477M	0.4%	+6.2%
7	Processed materials	$402M	0.4%	-3.1%
8	Specialty equipment	$327M	0.4%	+12%
9	Consumer products	$253M	0.4%	+0.7%
10	Intermediate goods	$178M	0.4%	-5.4%

Source & methodology

We use primary trade sources for every country. See our methodology page for how we source and verify this data.

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