How broad is trade between the two countries?

894 SH4 chapters record movement in the window. No single line dominates: the largest export, poultry meat, is about 21% of the total, and the largest import, vehicle parts, about 16%.

Brazil × Japan January–September 2026 — Foreign trade

Japan

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

Brazil ran a US$ 112.6 million trade surplus with Japan in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 3.52 billion against US$ 3.41 billion in imports. It is the most symmetric of Brazil's large partnerships: the two flows sit within 4% of each other.

The Brazilian basket is agri-food and mineral — poultry meat (US$ 722.8 million), iron ore, coffee, pork and aluminium. The Japanese side is industrial and concentrated: vehicle parts alone account for US$ 561.5 million of imports. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with Japan, Brazil closed January–September 2026 with a surplus of US$ 24.58M.

Brazil sold US$ 4.46B and bought US$ 4.43B, across 916 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → Japan

US$ 4.46B

Imports Japan → BR

US$ 4.43B

BR trade balance

US$ 24.58M

surplus · 916 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → Japan


1	0207	Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading No 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen	910,062,646	352,551.73	2.581
2	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	669,423,482	9,158,178.04	0.073
3	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	505,225,593	78,636.83	6.425
4	0203	Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen	479,384,615	142,362.78	3.367
5	7601	Unwrought aluminium	403,156,700	121,759.04	3.311
6	1201	Soya beans, whether or not broken	242,554,220	569,325.47	0.426
7	7202	Ferro-alloys	222,507,328	48,283.66	4.608
8	2304	Soybean oilcake and other solid residue, wh/not ground	111,021,145	297,996.8	0.373
9	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	105,589,839	205,907.82	0.513
10	1005	Maize (corn)	85,337,636	362,017.61	0.236
11	7112	Waste and scrap of precious metal or of metal clad with precious metal; other waste and scrap containing precious metal or precious metal compounds, of a kind used principally for the recovery of precious metal	82,407,747	740.25	111.324
12	8549	Waste and waste, and scrap, electrical and electronics	77,365,126	6,888.46	11.231
13	2009	Fruit juices (including grape must) and vegetable juices, unfermented and not containing added spirit, whether or not containing added sugar or other sweetening matter	54,467,731	16,556.04	3.290
14	2922	Oxygen-function amino-compounds	42,586,010	21,617.62	1.970
15	2818	Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide	39,199,174	224,283.1	0.175
16	3901	Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms	34,671,708	17,860.18	1.941
17	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	34,338,876	3,917.84	8.765
18	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	31,625,710	7,129.5	4.436
19	8429	Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers	26,166,347	1,906.94	13.722
20	1515	Other fixed vegetable fats and oils (including jojoba oil) and their fractions, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	23,887,059	22,724.64	1.051

Top imports Japan → Brazil


1	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	749,885,924	63,751.03	11.763
2	8542	Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies	195,195,590	41.33	4,722.512
3	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	178,891,127	7.63	23,436.542
4	8407	Spark-ignition reciprocating or rotary internal combustion piston engines	176,063,541	12,592.54	13.982
5	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	145,474,231	10,390.66	14.000
6	9032	Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus	141,101,238	1,196.50	117.928
7	8409	Parts suitable for use solely or principally with the engines of heading No 8407 or 8408	100,617,776	3,638.29	27.655
8	9027	Instruments and apparatus for physical or chemical analysis (for example, polarimeters, refractometers, spectrometers, gas or smoke analysis apparatus); instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking viscosity, porosity, expansion, surface tension or	92,461,701	448.47	206.174
9	9018	Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electromedical apparatus and sight-testing instruments	84,533,160	663.71	127.365
10	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	74,737,552	2,362.74	31.632
11	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	67,719,014	86.71	780.983
12	8714	Parts and accessories of vehicles of headings 8711 to 8713	65,266,101	2,569.46	25.401
13	8511	Electrical ignition or starting equipment of a kind used for spark-ignition or compression-ignition internal combustion engines (for example, ignition magnetos, magneto-dynamos, ignition coils, sparking plugs and glow plugs, starter motors); generators (f	64,644,937	1,674.70	38.601
14	8482	Ball or roller bearings	64,394,875	5,800.52	11.102
15	7318	Screws, bolts, nuts, coach screws, screw hooks, rivets, cotters, cotter-pins, washers (including spring washers) and similar articles, of iron or steel	60,804,064	8,102.45	7.504
16	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	57,455,797	4,711.64	12.194
17	8479	Machines and mechanical appliances having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter	55,650,964	1,308.39	42.534
18	4011	New pneumatic tyres, of rubber	52,781,392	8,386.01	6.294
19	8504	Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors	51,315,778	827.83	61.988
20	8429	Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers	50,897,558	8,815.86	5.773

Frequently asked questions

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

Brazil holds a US$ 112.6 million surplus: US$ 3.52 billion exported against US$ 3.41 billion imported. The gap is just 1.6% of total bilateral trade — effectively a tie, which makes this the most balanced of Brazil's large relationships.

What does Brazil export most to Japan?

Poultry meat leads at US$ 722.8 million, followed by iron ores (US$ 593.0 million), coffee (US$ 400.6 million) and pork (US$ 369.1 million). Unwrought aluminium completes the top five at US$ 323.0 million — a basket of foods and base metals.

What does Brazil import from Japan?

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