Brazilian exports to Arab countries hit new record

Brazilian exports to Arab countries, which represent the fifth largest market for national product in the world, beat the new record in the third quarter of 2014, both in revenue (value in millions of dollars) as in quantity (volume in tonnes). In July to September, Brazil exported US $ 3.69 billion in the region, a 3.5% higher value when compared to the same period in 2013, $ 3.57 billion.
Arab Nations accounted for 6% of the total number of products exported by Brazil in the period under examination and the major importers were the United Arab Emirates, followed by Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Oman and Algeria, which together received over 70% of all the Country sold to the Arab bloc. The balance of the last year should be closed until the next day 12.
The Brazilian export tariff for the region has strikingly expressive presence of food products. Soy, for example, saw the value exported to the region grow almost 160% compared to the same period in 2013. The Egypt imported $ 106,14 million of product in 2014, while importing only $ 8.9 million in the third quarter of 2013 (July to September). The Saudi Arabia registered increase of 17% in imported values.
Already chilled beef exports increased by 11% when compared to the previous year, despite the fall in imports registered in the main buyers of the product in the region – Egypt and Algeria (27 percent). The Lebanon's second largest destination of the product, regardless of $ 54 million in accumulated from July to September. Together, the three countries received 80% of all beef exported to the Arab countries.
Sugars
The values exported in sugar (cane or beet) for the region grew more than 24% and the main buyers in the period were the United Arab Emirates, Egypt and Algeria. Together, the three countries received approximately 60% of all the sugar exported by Brazil to the region, in addition to record growth in excess of 20% in comparison to the year 2013.
Almost 70% of all the Arab countries imported from Brazil focuses on sugars, meats, cereals and seeds. Ores also feature important values, registering slight fall (7%) in the imported value before 2013.
Among the top ten products purchased through the region from Brazil, presented the most growth were inorganic chemicals (artificial corundum), which passed $ 21,44 million to $ 98,23 million, and tractors, which passed $ small million to $ 82,74 million – an increase of over 400% as compared to the same period in 2013.
Destinations
The main destination of Brazilian products continues to be the United Arab Emirates, which imported from Brazil a value of $ 823,84 million, 30% more than in 2013. In the list of products most imported by the country, the sugars (cane or beet) occupied the first position, showing a value approximately 120% higher than in 2013. Meat and offal of birds occupied the second place. Tractors was one of the products that saw its imports grow, from $ 380 million in 2013 to $ 64,22 million in 2014. The artificial corundum, which did not register any value imported by country in the same period in 2013, totaled $ 59,04 million in 2014.
The Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Yemen showed significant increases in the values imported from Brazil. In these countries the highlights were for sugars and sugar confectionery.
Principal buyer of poultry meat and offal product and destination of almost 50% of all Brazilian poultry Saudi Arabia registered an increase of 4% when compared to the same period in 2013. The United Arab Emirates and Kuwait are the second and third largest importers of the product.
Ores
Exports of iron ores-important Brazilian exporter tariff item-focused primarily (60%) in Oman, in Libya and Bahrain. The Bahrain saw the value of its imports of the product grow almost 30% in the period from 2013.
Exports of artificial corundum, one of the highlights of the Brazilian tariff in the analysis period, the Arabs see sales grow more than 300% from 2013. The total value exported in July to September 2014 was $ 98 million, compared to $ 21,44 million exported in 2013 and major destinations in the region were the United Arab Emirates and Qatar.
In the list of top ten exported products to the Arab countries, exports of tractors were the ones that grew in the period under examination in 2013. It was imported by the region a total of $ 82,74 million, and its main importers, United Arab Emirates, Algeria and Saudi Arabia have registered impressive growths. The Emirates saw its imports of the product pass $ 380 million in 2013 to $ 64,22 million in the period under examination in 2014, to Saudi Arabia, in turn, went from $ 200,000 to $ 2.89 million.
Completing the list of the ten most products purchased by the Arab world from Brazil, the values exported in live animals (cattle) grew by 50% from 2013. The Lebanon, who received nearly 70% of the exports of the product in the region recorded 68% increase in imported values in relation to 2013. The Jordan, following the wave of Lebanese growth, recorded an increase of more than 200% compared with the previous year, importing US $ 10 million in cattle. The Egypt, third largest buyer in the region during the period, recorded a fall of 60% on the values