How broad is trade between the two countries?

993 SH4 chapters record movement in the window — wide coverage of the nomenclature. No single line dominates: the largest export, coffee, is about 20% of the total, and the largest import, medicaments, about 12%.

Brazil × Italy January–October 2026 — Foreign trade

Italy

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

Brazil ran a US$ 718.1 million trade deficit with Italy in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 3.55 billion against US$ 4.27 billion in imports. The imbalance is small by European standards: the two flows sit within 17% of each other.

The Brazilian basket brings together coffee (US$ 726.1 million), wood pulp and crude oil; the import side is led by medicaments and blood products, followed by vehicle parts and mechanical components such as transmission shafts and valves. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with Italy, Brazil closed January–October 2026 with a deficit of US$ 242.19M.

Brazil sold US$ 5.94B and bought US$ 6.18B, across 1,031 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → Italy

US$ 5.94B

Imports Italy → BR

US$ 6.18B

BR trade balance

-US$ 242.19M

deficit · 1,031 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → Italy


1	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	1,206,705,829	2,281,394.04	0.529
2	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	1,110,956,276	173,040.15	6.420
3	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	797,703,524	1,602,351.07	0.498
4	7108	Gold (including gold plated with platinum), unwrought or in semi-manufactured forms, or in powder form	401,336,697	3.12	128,509.989
5	1201	Soya beans, whether or not broken	359,218,637	829,009.6	0.433
6	0202	Meat of bovine animals, frozen	224,146,970	29,227.3	7.669
7	7201	Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms	184,719,092	409,529.01	0.451
8	2304	Soybean oilcake and other solid residue, wh/not ground	114,160,799	330,465.87	0.345
9	1005	Maize (corn)	109,903,978	449,552.08	0.244
10	4401	Fuel wood, in logs, in billets, in twigs, in faggots or in similar forms; wood in chips or particles; sawdust and wood waste and scrap, whether or not agglomerated in logs, briquettes, pellets or similar forms	80,477,950	348,344.38	0.231
11	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	79,843,670	74,806.01	1.067
12	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	73,413,127	878,193	0.084
13	2506	Quartz (other than natural sands); quartzite, whether or not roughly trimmed or merely cut, by sawing or otherwise, into blocks or slabs of a rectangular (including square) shape	68,020,422	97,590.2	0.697
14	7202	Ferro-alloys	59,494,612	18,741.58	3.174
15	4104	Tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine (including buffalo) or equine animals, without hair on, whether or not split, but not further prepared	55,314,025	52,788.96	1.048
16	4804	Uncoated kraft paper and paperboard, in rolls or sheets, other than that of heading No 4802 or 4803	49,959,329	75,358.33	0.663
17	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	48,386,114	13,371.25	3.619
18	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	40,843,915	3,322.56	12.293
19	8501	Electric motors and generators (excluding generating sets)	37,054,779	4,764.09	7.778
20	4412	Plywood, veneered panels and similar laminated wood	34,945,276	62,955.17	0.555

Top imports Italy → Brazil


1	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	787,496,100	2,485.81	316.797
2	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	383,641,450	656.14	584.699
3	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	303,017,276	31,891.46	9.502
4	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	144,725,453	9,596.72	15.081
5	8481	Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves	122,667,475	2,661.58	46.088
6	8422	Dishwashing machines; machinery for cleaning or drying bottles or other containers; machinery for filling, closing, sealing or labelling bottles, cans, boxes, bags or other containers; machinery for capsuling bottles, jars, tubes and similar containers; o	113,923,637	1,493.79	76.265
7	8479	Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter	107,730,867	4,269.20	25.234
8	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	105,150,610	5,119.87	20.538
9	8431	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the machinery of headings 8425 to 8430	98,425,064	15,992.00	6.155
10	8408	Compression-ignition internal combustion piston engines (diesel or semi-diesel engines)	97,889,710	5,698.56	17.178
11	8802	Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles	91,412,835	38.63	2,366.553
12	8703	Motor cars and other motor vehicles principally designed for the transport of persons (other than those of heading 8702), including station wagons and racing cars	90,763,257	470.22	193.022
13	7318	Screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers (including spring washers) and similar articles, of iron or steel	83,588,086	11,337.80	7.373
14	8413	Pumps for liquids, whether or not fitted with a measuring device; liquid elevators	71,973,976	1,796.29	40.068
15	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	64,910,736	2,078.45	31.230
16	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	64,292,017	1,167.75	55.056
17	8421	Centrifuges, including centrifugal dryers; filtering or purifying machinery and apparatus, for liquids or gases	64,179,412	2,432.26	26.387
18	8543	Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter	63,996,313	1,122.38	57.018
19	2941	Antibiotics	59,531,986	204.15	291.605
20	8438	Machinery, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter, for the industrial preparation or manufacture of food or drink, other than machinery for the extraction or preparation of animal or fixed vegetable fats or oils	57,939,848	1,789.86	32.371

Frequently asked questions

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

Brazil carries a US$ 718.1 million deficit: US$ 3.55 billion exported against US$ 4.27 billion imported. The gap equals roughly 9% of total bilateral trade, one of the most contained imbalances among Brazil's European partners.

What does Brazil export most to Italy?

Coffee leads at US$ 726.1 million, followed by chemical wood pulp (US$ 596.6 million) and crude petroleum oils (US$ 480.6 million). The three total US$ 1.80 billion, just over half the export basket, with soybeans and gold rounding out the top five.

What does Brazil import from Italy?

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