What is the logic of this exchange?

It is agricultural complementarity: Brazil sells the protein input feeding Indonesian animal husbandry — US$ 915.2 million in soybean meal — and buys the tropical vegetable oils it does not produce at scale, US$ 325.9 million between palm and coconut. Each side supplies what the other's climate does not deliver.

Brazil × Indonesia January–August 2026 — Foreign trade

Indonesia

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

Brazil ran a US$ 921.9 million trade surplus with Indonesia in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 2.39 billion against US$ 1.47 billion in imports.

The Brazilian basket is input for protein and textile chains: soybean meal leads at US$ 915.2 million, followed by crude oil (US$ 702.6 million), cotton and unmanufactured tobacco. Imports are dominated by tropical vegetable oils — coconut and palm kernel oil (US$ 190.6 million) and palm oil (US$ 135.3 million) — plus coal coke. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with Indonesia, Brazil closed January–August 2026 with a surplus of US$ 992.45M.

Brazil sold US$ 2.67B and bought US$ 1.67B, across 616 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → Indonesia

US$ 2.67B

Imports Indonesia → BR

US$ 1.67B

BR trade balance

US$ 992.45M

surplus · 616 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → Indonesia


1	2304	Soybean oilcake and other solid residue, wh/not ground	1,069.04	2,995.14	0.357
2	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	673.21	1,075.97	0.626
3	5201	Cotton, not carded or combed	213.39	133.88	1.594
4	2401	Unmanufactured tobacco; tobacco refuse	164.22	23.19	7.082
5	0202	Meat of bovine animals, frozen	101.34	23.31	4.348
6	1701	Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form	85.01	252.45	0.337
7	4702	Chemical wood pulp, dissolving grades	55.35	75.94	0.729
8	2101	Extracts, essences and concentrates, of coffee, tea or maté and preparations with a basis of these products or with a basis of coffee, tea or maté; roasted chicory and other roasted coffee substitutes, and extracts, essences and concentrates thereof	39.54	3.87	10.225
9	0206	Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen	39.19	25.16	1.558
10	2301	Flours, meals and pellets, of meat or meat offal, of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates, unfit for human consumption; greaves	17.42	46.24	0.377
11	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	15.93	31.75	0.502
12	8701	Tractors (other than tractors of heading 8709)	13.52	0.94	14.315
13	4407	Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm	13.42	31.49	0.426
14	2303	Residues of starch manufacture and similar residues, beet-pulp, bagasse and other waste of sugar manufacture, brewing or distilling dregs and waste, whether or not in the form of pellets	13.02	40.17	0.324
15	4011	New pneumatic tyres, of rubber	11.70	2.01	5.812
16	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	11.58	1.68	6.912
17	1201	Soya beans, whether or not broken	9.55	21.84	0.437
18	3503	Gelatin and derivatives, isinglass, glues, of animal origin	7.01	1.46	4.819
19	4002	Synthetic rubber and factice derived from oils, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip; mixtures of any product of heading No 4001 with any product of this heading, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip	6.43	1.43	4.496
20	1502	Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 15.03	5.94	6.69	0.887

Top imports Indonesia → Brazil


1	1513	Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	219.12	112,514.88	1.947
2	2704	Coke etc of coal, lignite or peat, retort carbon	198.03	789,609.73	0.251
3	1511	Palm oil and its fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	154.49	139,249.22	1.109
4	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	94.85	6,508.19	14.574
5	8524	Records, tapes and other recorded media for sound or other similarly recorded phenomena, including matrices and masters for the production of records, but excluding products of Chapter 37	71.74	4,320.09	16.606
6	4011	New pneumatic tyres, of rubber	69.69	29,343.01	2.375
7	4001	Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip	57.62	27,456.04	2.098
8	6404	Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of textile materials	55.83	1,668.81	33.457
9	3823	Industrial monocarboxylic fatty acids; acid oils from refining; industrial fatty alcohols	51.00	24,328.82	2.096
10	8714	Parts and accessories of vehicles of headings 8711 to 8713	43.79	4,241.20	10.326
11	8443	Printing machinery used for printing by means of the printing type, blocks, plates, cylinders and other printing components of heading 8442; ink-jet printing machines, other than those of heading 8471; machines for uses ancillary to printing	33.90	1,259.26	26.918
12	8407	Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines	28.53	1,635.57	17.446
13	6402	Other footwear with outer soles and uppers of rubber or plastics	27.58	1,214.48	22.705
14	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	25.10	2,085.16	12.035
15	7005	Float glass and surface ground or polished glass, in sheets, whether or not having an absorbent, reflecting or non-reflecting layer, but not otherwise worked	23.90	120,324.29	0.199
16	7219	Flat-rolled products of stainless steel, of a width of 600 mm or more	20.79	12,243.60	1.698
17	8542	Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies	17.38	22.76	763.560
18	6403	Footwear with outer soles of rubber, plastics, leather or composition leather and uppers of leather	13.55	544.28	24.893
19	8512	Electrical lighting or signalling equipment (excluding articles of heading 8539), windscreen wipers, defrosters and demisters, of a kind used for cycles or motor vehicles	12.23	394.80	30.983
20	8536	Electrical apparatus for switching or protecting electrical circuits, or for making connections to or in electrical circuits (for example, switches, relays, fuses, surge suppressors, plugs, sockets, lamp-holders, junction boxes), for a voltage not exceedi	12.15	311.45	39.021

Frequently asked questions

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

Brazil holds a US$ 921.9 million surplus: US$ 2.39 billion exported against US$ 1.47 billion imported. The gap equals roughly 24% of total bilateral trade in the period.

What does Brazil export most to Indonesia?

Soybean meal leads at US$ 915.2 million, followed by crude petroleum oils (US$ 702.6 million), cotton (US$ 203.5 million) and unmanufactured tobacco (US$ 145.7 million). The first two together reach US$ 1.62 billion, about 68% of the basket.

What does Brazil import from Indonesia?

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