What does Brazil import from the United States?

Refined petroleum leads at US$ 3.89 billion, ahead of medicaments (US$ 1.44 billion) and gas turbines (US$ 1.03 billion). Petroleum runs both ways: Brazil sold US$ 2.24 billion in crude and bought US$ 997.4 million of the same chapter, on top of the refined volumes.

Why do petroleum and aircraft appear on both sides?

These are intra-industry chapters: Brazil exports crude (US$ 2.24 billion) and imports refined product (US$ 3.89 billion), because the refining step adds value abroad. Aircraft follow the same pattern, with US$ 1.35 billion sold and US$ 816.8 million bought, reflecting different models and sizes.

Brazil × United States January–October 2026

United States

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

Brazil ran a US$ 2.24 billion trade deficit with the United States in January–July 2026, exporting US$ 20.99 billion against US$ 23.23 billion in imports. It is Brazil's second-largest partner by value and the most balanced among the big ones: the two flows sit within 11% of each other.

This is the most diversified basket in Brazilian foreign trade, with 1,131 active SH4 chapters. Brazil sells crude oil, semi-finished iron and steel, and aircraft; it buys refined petroleum, medicaments and gas turbines — and in several chapters the two countries sell to each other. Browse the SH4 chapters below to drill into a specific commodity.

In trade with United States, Brazil closed January–October 2026 with a deficit of US$ 5.16B.

Brazil sold US$ 31.73B and bought US$ 36.89B, across 1,140 SH4 headings with data.

Exports BR → United States

US$ 31.73B

Imports United States → BR

US$ 36.89B

BR trade balance

-US$ 5.16B

deficit · 1,140 headings with data

Top exports Brazil → United States


1	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	3,843,247,194	7,224,698.52	0.532
2	8802	Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles	2,234,897,039	1,721.62	1,298.136
3	7207	Semi-finished products of iron or non-alloy steel	2,200,569,526	3,620,000.56	0.608
4	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	1,789,970,603	2,389,287.35	0.749
5	0202	Meat of bovine animals, frozen	1,739,043,896	293,640.74	5.922
6	0901	Coffee, whether or not roasted or decaffeinated; coffee husks and skins; coffee substitutes containing coffee in any proportion	1,459,773,122	237,331.73	6.151
7	8429	Self-propelled bulldozers, angledozers, graders, levellers, scrapers, mechanical shovels, excavators, shovel loaders, tamping machines and road rollers	1,198,786,706	129,911.96	9.228
8	4703	Chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, other than dissolving grades	1,142,590,315	2,555,497.26	0.447
9	7201	Pig iron and spiegeleisen in pigs, blocks or other primary forms	968,178,732	2,228,524.07	0.434
10	8504	Electrical transformers, static converters (for example, rectifiers) and inductors	764,103,565	34,527.9	22.130
11	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	728,477,113	1,049,652.91	0.694
12	7224	Other alloy steel in ingots or other primary forms; semi-finished products of other alloy steel	669,958,341	1,019,852.54	0.657
13	6802	Worked monumental or building stone (except slate) and articles thereof, other than goods of heading 6801; mosaic cubes and the like, of natural stone (including slate), whether or not on a backing; artificially coloured granules, chippings and powder, of	654,000,520	462,945.94	1.413
14	8411	Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines	500,064,960	268.66	1,861.302
15	4011	New pneumatic tyres, of rubber	430,055,969	80,824.02	5.321
16	7202	Ferro-alloys	411,470,159	72,035.67	5.712
17	1602	Other prepared or preserved meat, meat offal or blood	380,482,599	32,540.2	11.693
18	2818	Artificial corundum, whether or not chemically defined; aluminium oxide; aluminium hydroxide	359,013,096	1,217,735.6	0.295
19	2601	Iron ores and concentrates, including roasted iron pyrites	321,164,675	2,799,629.06	0.115
20	1502	Fats of bovine animals, sheep or goats, other than those of heading 15.03	286,972,004	240,377.12	1.194

Top imports United States → Brazil


1	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	8,935,609,425	8,069,134.39	1.107
2	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	1,771,031,955	2,744.93	645.201
3	2709	Crude oil from petroleum and bituminous minerals	1,544,960,347	2,236,375.77	0.691
4	8411	Turbo-jets, turbo-propellers and other gas turbines	1,436,308,081	472.9	3,037.209
5	8802	Other aircraft (for example, helicopters, aeroplanes); spacecraft (including satellites) and suborbital and spacecraft launch vehicles	1,163,000,360	1,169.04	994.830
6	2701	Coal; briquettes, ovoids and similar solid fuels manufactured from coal	975,974,590	6,229,446.18	0.157
7	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	831,220,645	1,454.63	571.431
8	2711	Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons	720,601,621	1,225,731.53	0.588
9	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	657,961,457	895.89	734.425
10	3105	Mineral or chemical fertilisers containing two or three of the fertilising elements nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium; other fertilisers; goods of this chapter in tablets or similar forms or in packages of a gross weight not exceeding 10 kg	599,470,012	888,733.98	0.675
11	3901	Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms	556,767,786	447,748.35	1.243
12	2815	Sodium hydroxide (caustic soda); potassium hydroxide (caustic potash); peroxides of sodium or potassium	537,696,106	2,365,406.09	0.227
13	3808	Insecticides, rodenticides, fungicides, herbicides, anti-sprouting products and plant-growth regulators, disinfectants and similar products, put up in forms or packings for retail sale or as preparations or articles (for example, sulphur-treated bands, wi	506,095,882	17,012.92	29.748
14	8708	Parts and accessories of the motor vehicles of heading 8701 to 8705	495,395,657	22,150.98	22.365
15	2905	Acyclic alcohols and their halogenated, sulphonated, nitrated or nitrosated derivatives	481,419,643	815,316.82	0.590
16	8502	Electric generating sets and rotary converters	473,567,443	10,530.49	44.971
17	8807	Parts of apparatus of heading 88.01, 88.02 or 88.06	405,588,651	846.24	479.286
18	2713	Petroleum coke, petroleum bitumen and other residues of petroleum oils or of oils obtained from bituminous minerals	404,697,342	3,187,015.57	0.127
19	9018	Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electromedical apparatus and sight-testing instruments	394,472,151	2,139.05	184.415
20	2933	Heterocyclic compounds with nitrogen hetero-atom(s) only	345,575,836	15,388.1	22.457

Frequently asked questions

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

Brazil carries a US$ 2.24 billion deficit: US$ 20.99 billion exported against US$ 23.23 billion imported. It is one of the few large partnerships where Brazil buys more than it sells, and the gap amounts to roughly 5% of total bilateral trade in the period.

What does Brazil export most to the United States?

Crude petroleum oils lead at US$ 2.24 billion, followed by semi-finished iron and steel products (US$ 1.55 billion) and aircraft (US$ 1.35 billion). Unlike Asian partners, no single line exceeds 11% of the basket — exports to the US market are industrially more varied.

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