How broad is trade between the two countries?

952 SH4 chapters record movement in the window — wide coverage of the nomenclature. Imports are well distributed: the largest line, gas turbines, is just 6.5% of the US$ 3.10 billion bought.

Brazil × France January–October 2026 — Foreign trade

France

What Brazil sold to and bought from France in January–October 2026: exports, imports, trade balance and the most traded HS4 chapters.

Brazil ran a US$ 822.6 million trade deficit with France in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 2.28 billion against US$ 3.10 billion in imports. Brazil buys about 1.4 times what it sells.

The Brazilian basket is commodities: crude oil (US$ 670.6 million), soybean meal, coffee, semi-finished steel and wood pulp. The French side is capital goods and health — gas turbines lead at US$ 202.2 million, followed by vehicle parts, medicaments and blood products. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with France, Brazil closed January–October 2026 with a deficit of US$ 1.27B.

Brazil sold US$ 2.82B and bought US$ 4.09B, across 974 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → France

US$ 2.82B

Imports France → BR

US$ 4.09B

BR trade balance

-US$ 1.27B

deficit · 974 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → France


1	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	632,149,643	1,145,877.87	0.552
2	2304	Soybean oilcake and other solid residue, wh/not ground	501,591,127	1,366,282.34	0.367
3	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	245,493,517	38,958.34	6.301
4	7207	Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel	172,618,675	337,649.65	0.511
5	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	157,312,364	305,161.05	0.516
6	2710	Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals, other than crude; preparations not elsewhere specified or included, containing by weight 70 % or more of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals, these oils being the basic con	102,144,422	85,698.42	1.192
7	8411	Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines	96,621,085	7.09	13,623.954
8	8807	Parts of apparatus of heading 88.01, 88.02 or 88.06	84,733,023	88.14	961.400
9	9701	Paintings, drawings and pastels, executed entirely by hand, other than drawings of heading 4906 and other than hand-painted or hand-decorated manufactured articles; collages and similar decorative plaques	81,391,306	1.08	75,502.139
10	3004	Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings	75,902,323	323.41	234.695
11	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	61,613,037	791,856.68	0.078
12	4409	Wood (including strips and friezes for parquet flooring, not assembled) continuously shaped (tongued, grooved, rebated, chamfered, V-jointed, beaded, moulded, rounded or the like) along any of its edges, ends or faces, whether or not planed, sanded or end	34,262,768	17,559.17	1.951
13	3504	Peptones, other proteins and derivatives, etc, hide powder	28,798,486	3,055.13	9.426
14	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	24,804,283	5,103.53	4.860
15	8483	Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including	23,025,794	437.8	52.595
16	2401	Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse	23,017,250	4,860.33	4.736
17	6403	Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of leather	18,790,749	582.41	32.264
18	2818	Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide	17,868,556	83,455.07	0.214
19	1701	Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form	17,040,307	46,571.73	0.366
20	3301	Essential oils (terpeneless or not), including concretes and absolutes; resinoids; extracted oleoresins; concentrates of essential oils in fats, in fixed oils, in waxes or the like, obtained by enfleurage or maceration; terpenic by-products of the deterpe	14,483,443	1,203.91	12.030

Top imports France → Brazil


1	8411	Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines	270,969,722	46.04	5,885.784
2	3004	Medicaments (excluding goods of heading 3002, 3005 or 3006) consisting of mixed or unmixed products for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, put up in measured doses (including those in the form of transdermal administration systems) or in forms or packings	200,104,654	1,424.68	140.456
3	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	196,422,197	28,053.03	7.002
4	3002	Human blood; animal blood prepared for therapeutic, prophylactic or diagnostic uses; antisera and other blood fractions and modified immunological products, whether or not obtained by means of biotechnological processes; vaccines, toxins, cultures of micr	196,368,182	158.94	1,235.494
5	8802	Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles	182,743,309	202.40	902.882
6	8807	Parts of apparatus of heading 88.01, 88.02 or 88.06	138,733,406	110.05	1,260.594
7	2933	Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only	101,393,334	2,458.97	41.234
8	3303	Perfumes and toilet waters	85,868,656	1,726.11	49.747
9	8408	Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)	77,159,813	4,255.40	18.132
10	3808	Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wi	72,064,685	3,181.23	22.653
11	8483	Transmission shafts (including cam shafts and crank shafts) and cranks; bearing housings and plain shaft bearings; gears and gearing; ball or roller screws; gear boxes and other speed changers, including torque converters; flywheels and pulleys, including	69,747,199	2,249.87	31.000
12	9032	Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus	62,404,327	318.66	195.837
13	3904	Polymers of vinyl chloride or of other halogenated olefins, in primary forms	54,289,019	9,823.36	5.527
14	8414	Air or vacuum pumps, air or other gas compressors and fans; ventilating or recycling hoods incorporating a fan, whether or not fitted with filters	54,226,678	2,888.81	18.771
15	8421	Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases	53,330,921	1,390.05	38.366
16	3811	Anti-knock preparations, oxidation inhibitors, gum inhibitors, viscosity improvers, anti-corrosive preparations and other prepared additives, for mineral oils (including gasoline) or for other liquids used for the same purposes as mineral oils	53,319,757	15,128.26	3.525
17	2934	Nucleic acids and their salts, whether or not chemically defined; other heterocyclic compounds	53,000,926	110.39	480.142
18	2204	Wine of fresh grapes, including fortified wines; grape must other than that of heading No 2009	50,481,113	4,837.24	10.436
19	8481	Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves	47,867,785	596.78	80.210
20	7318	Screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers (including spring washers) and similar articles, of iron or steel	45,096,559	2,968.01	15.194

Frequently asked questions

How large is the Brazil–France trade balance in January–July 2026?

Brazil carries a US$ 822.6 million deficit: US$ 2.28 billion exported against US$ 3.10 billion imported. The gap equals roughly 15% of total bilateral trade in the period.

What does Brazil export most to France?

Crude petroleum oils lead at US$ 670.6 million, followed by soybean meal (US$ 345.6 million) and coffee (US$ 195.4 million). Semi-finished steel (US$ 154.7 million) and wood pulp (US$ 125.8 million) complete the top five — the basket is entirely lightly processed.

What does Brazil import from France?

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