What is the logic of this exchange?

It is complementarity between an ore exporter and an electronics hub: Brazil ships US$ 776.8 million in iron and copper ores and receives US$ 246.0 million in integrated circuits and data machines, plus the tropical vegetable oils it does not produce at scale.

Brazil × Malaysia January–August 2026 — Foreign trade

Malaysia

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

Brazil ran a US$ 353.2 million trade surplus with Malaysia in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 1.35 billion against US$ 996.7 million in imports.

The Brazilian basket is mineral and agricultural: iron ores lead at US$ 594.5 million, followed by copper ores (US$ 182.3 million), sugar, maize and coffee. The Malaysian side is electronics — integrated circuits (US$ 147.5 million) and data-processing machines — with vegetable oils and margarine rounding it out. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with Malaysia, Brazil closed January–August 2026 with a surplus of US$ 419.01M.

Brazil sold US$ 1.59B and bought US$ 1.17B, across 591 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → Malaysia

US$ 1.59B

Imports Malaysia → BR

US$ 1.17B

BR trade balance

US$ 419.01M

surplus · 591 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → Malaysia


1	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	663.13	9,352.791	0.071
2	2603	Copper ores and concentrates	220.16	36.336	6.059
3	1701	Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form	161.83	479.803	0.337
4	1005	Maize (corn)	92.63	429.655	0.216
5	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	75.09	134.458	0.558
6	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	56.38	8.330	6.768
7	5201	Cotton, not carded or combed	56.12	34.260	1.638
8	0202	Meat of bovine animals, frozen	48.52	11.094	4.373
9	0203	Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen	42.23	13.940	3.029
10	2922	Oxygen-function amino-compounds	19.06	12.402	1.537
11	2804	Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals	13.11	5.400	2.428
12	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	13.09	1.247	10.494
13	0206	Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen	12.46	4.950	2.517
14	1201	Soya beans, whether or not broken	10.26	24.048	0.427
15	8704	Motor vehicles for the transport of goods	9.47	0.326	29.037
16	4407	Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm	6.15	13.021	0.472
17	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	6.09	10.519	0.579
18	4408	Sheets for veneering (including those obtained by slicing laminated wood), for plywood or for other similar laminated wood and other wood, sawn lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded, spliced or end-jointed, of a thickness not exceedi	5.98	21.969	0.272
19	0207	Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading No 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen	5.63	4.257	1.321
20	3001	Glands and other organs for organo-therapeutic uses, dried, whether or not powdered; extracts of glands or other organs or of their secretions for organo-therapeutic uses; heparin and its salts; other human or animal substances prepared for therapeutic or	4.76	0.001	3,784.084

Top imports Malaysia → Brazil


1	8542	Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies	170.28	135.98	1,252.232
2	8471	Automatic data-processing machines and units thereof; magnetic or optical readers, machines for transcribing data onto data media in coded form and machines for processing such data, not elsewhere specified or included	113.58	101.98	1,113.743
3	1517	Margarine; edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils or their fractions of heading No 1516	66.90	11,038.54	6.060
4	8517	Electrical apparatus for line telephony or line telegraphy, including line telephone sets with cordless handsets and telecommunication apparatus for carrier-current line systems or for digital line systems; videophones	55.60	125.16	444.272
5	8307	Flexible tubing of base metal, with or without fittings	50.36	5,082.82	9.908
6	4015	Articles of apparel and clothing accessories (including gloves, mittens and mitts), for all purposes, of vulcanised rubber other than hard rubber	37.72	8,703.41	4.334
7	1513	Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	34.80	17,902.88	1.944
8	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	26.42	15,851.51	1.667
9	1803	Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted	23.39	4,041.00	5.788
10	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	22.51	1,625.71	13.849
11	9021	Orthopaedic appliances, including crutches, surgical belts and trusses; splints and other fracture appliances; artificial parts of the body; hearing aids and other appliances which are worn or carried, or implanted in the body, to compensate for a defect	22.30	21.10	1,056.845
12	9030	Oscilloscopes, spectrum analysers and other instruments and apparatus for measuring or checking electrical quantities, excluding meters of heading 9028; instruments and apparatus for measuring or detecting alpha, beta, gamma, X-ray, cosmic or other ionisi	19.51	49.25	396.227
13	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	19.14	350.49	54.614
14	8481	Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves	18.65	180.35	103.412
15	8541	Diodes, transistors and similar semiconductor devices; photosensitive semiconductor devices, including photovoltaic cells whether or not assembled in modules or made-up into panels; light-emitting diodes; mounted piezo-electric crystals	18.54	30.47	608.460
16	4001	Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip	17.13	7,899.80	2.169
17	8543	Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter	15.05	90.54	166.286
18	3206	Other colouring matter; preparations as specified in note 3 to this chapter, other than those of heading 3203, 3204 or 3205; inorganic products of a kind used as luminophores, whether or not chemically defined	15.03	6,853.80	2.193
19	9032	Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus	14.49	144.69	100.135
20	8531	Electric sound or visual signalling apparatus (for example, bells, sirens, indicator panels, burglar or fire alarms), other than those of heading 8512 or 8530	13.34	2.21	6,039.258

Frequently asked questions

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

Brazil holds a US$ 353.2 million surplus: US$ 1.35 billion exported against US$ 996.7 million imported. The gap equals roughly 15% of total bilateral trade in the period.

What does Brazil export most to Malaysia?

Iron ores lead at US$ 594.5 million, about 44% of the basket, followed by copper ores (US$ 182.3 million), cane sugar (US$ 163.2 million), maize (US$ 92.6 million) and coffee (US$ 51.1 million).

What does Brazil import from Malaysia?

Integrated circuits lead at US$ 147.5 million, followed by data-processing machines (US$ 98.5 million), margarine and fat preparations (US$ 59.9 million), telephony equipment (US$ 51.1 million) and coconut and palm kernel oils (US$ 34.7 million).

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