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–October 2026 — Foreign trade

Malaysia

What Brazil sold to and bought from Malaysia in January–October 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–October 2026 with a surplus of US$ 877.96M.

Brazil sold US$ 2.42B and bought US$ 1.54B, across 610 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → Malaysia

US$ 2.42B

Imports Malaysia → BR

US$ 1.54B

BR trade balance

US$ 877.96M

surplus · 610 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → Malaysia


1	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	866,242,115	12,883,632	0.067
2	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	446,575,660	842,593.11	0.530
3	2603	Copper ores and concentrates	252,029,584	41,397.99	6.088
4	1701	Cane or beet sugar and chemically pure sucrose, in solid form	239,984,957	676,579.56	0.355
5	1005	Maize (corn)	111,929,301	513,284.51	0.218
6	5201	Cotton, not carded or combed	67,753,575	41,183.42	1.645
7	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	66,995,023	10,163.25	6.592
8	0202	Meat of bovine animals, frozen	64,994,017	14,682.73	4.427
9	0203	Meat of swine, fresh, chilled or frozen	53,708,910	18,543.26	2.896
10	2922	Oxygen-function amino-compounds	22,709,365	14,543.18	1.562
11	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	19,836,269	1,929.97	10.278
12	8704	Motor vehicles for the transport of goods	15,713,144	553.7	28.379
13	2804	Hydrogen, rare gases and other non-metals	15,337,805	6,400	2.397
14	0206	Edible offal of bovine animals, swine, sheep, goats, horses, asses, mules or hinnies, fresh, chilled or frozen	14,894,006	6,003.56	2.481
15	0207	Meat and edible offal, of the poultry of heading No 0105, fresh, chilled or frozen	12,711,750	9,443.54	1.346
16	1201	Soya beans, whether or not broken	11,755,785	27,175.35	0.433
17	1502	Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 15.03	11,146,416	8,192.45	1.361
18	4407	Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise, sliced or peeled, whether or not planed, sanded or end-jointed, of a thickness exceeding 6 mm	10,660,486	22,493.23	0.474
19	8802	Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles	9,255,900	14.3	647.220
20	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	7,409,090	12,796.47	0.579

Top imports Malaysia → Brazil


1	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	211,672,588	178.65	1,184.832
2	8542	Electronic integrated circuits and microassemblies	210,583,781	167.24	1,259.194
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	80,921,090	13,400.29	6.039
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	72,871,402	159.05	458.164
5	8307	Flexible tubing of base metal, with or without fittings	50,362,562	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	45,517,640	10,124.28	4.496
7	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	43,675,303	22,346.04	1.954
8	1513	Coconut (copra), palm kernel or babassu oil and fractions thereof, whether or not refined, but not chemically modified	40,064,541	20,392.37	1.965
9	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	28,486,605	2,068.80	13.770
10	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	28,184,424	25.43	1,108.140
11	8481	Taps, cocks, valves and similar appliances for pipes, boiler shells, tanks, vats or the like, including pressure-reducing valves and thermostatically controlled valves	27,535,858	302.50	91.027
12	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	24,918,385	449.95	55.380
13	1803	Cocoa paste, whether or not defatted	24,377,915	4,321.00	5.642
14	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	22,769,271	37.57	606.033
15	4001	Natural rubber, balata, gutta-percha, guayule, chicle and similar natural gums, in primary forms or in plates, sheets or strip	21,433,406	9,590.42	2.235
16	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	21,303,981	58.18	366.167
17	8543	Electrical machines and apparatus, having individual functions, not specified or included elsewhere in this chapter	19,350,002	110.23	175.542
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	19,260,998	8,522.83	2.260
19	9032	Automatic regulating or controlling instruments and apparatus	19,157,551	162.73	117.730
20	8544	Insulated (including enamelled or anodised) wire, cable (including coaxial cable) and other insulated electric conductors, whether or not fitted with connectors; optical fibre cables, made-up of individually sheathed fibres, whether or not assembled with	16,301,581	3,799.24	4.291

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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