Walking a fiscal and political tightrope

B3

SENSITIVE RISK

  • Economic risk

  • Business environment risk

  • Political risk

  • Commercial risk

  • Financing risk

  • Economic risk

  • Business environment risk

  • Political risk

  • Commercial risk

  • Financing risk

Updated in September 2021.

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GDP USD 1444bn (World ranking 12, World Bank 2020)
Population 213 mn (World ranking 6, World Bank 2020)
Form of state Presidential republic
Head of state Jair Bolsonaro (President)
Next elections 2022, presidential and legislative
  • Important role on an international and regional scale
  • Diversified economy
  • Growing middle class
  • Robust foreign direct investment inflows, high level of foreign exchange reserves and low external debt
  • Support for IFIs likely if needed
  • Vulnerable to global commodity prices
  • High production costs
  • High taxation and red tape ("Brazil cost")
  • Large fiscal deficits and increasing public debt
  • Political and social tensions on the back of corruption and high income inequality

Trade structure by destination/origin

(% of total, annual 2020)

Exports Rank Imports
China 32.4%
1
23.2% China
United States 10.3%
2
16.7% United States
Argentina 4.0%
3
5.9% Germany
Netherlands 3.5%
4
5.3% Argentina
Canada 2.0%
5
2.8% South Korea

Trade structure by product

(% of total, annual 2020)

Exports Rank Imports
Metalliferous ores and metal scrap 17.3%
1
9.6% Electrical machinery, apparatus and appliances, n.e.s.
Oil seeds and oleaginous fruits 15.8%
2
7.2% Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials
Petroleum, petroleum products and related materials 8.7%
3
7.1% Road vehicles
Meat and meat preparations 6.2%
4
6.3% Organic chemicals
Iron and steel 4.7%
5
5.6% Fertilizers other than group 272
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