São Paulo – Brazil’s fertilizer imports climbed 12.6% from January to November of this year over the same period of 2015, according to data from the National Fertilizer Association (ANDA). In all, 22.3 million tons were bought abroad.
Data from the Secretariat of Foreign Trade (Secex), linked to the Ministry of Industry, Foreign Trade and Services (MDIC), shows that from the Arab world came to Brazil 4.2 million tons of fertilizers in the period. The region stepped up its supply to the Brazilian market in 32.2%, well above the country’s overall import growth.
The data made public by the Ministry shows that the countries that supplied the most fertilizers to Brazilian year-to-date until November were Russia, Canada, United States, Belarus and Morocco. The ranking is based on volume.
Moroccans sold 1.2 million tons of fertilizers to Brazil from January to November, up 35.3% over the same period of 2015. Qatar supplied 1.1 million tons, a decline of 8.2% in the same comparison, and Saudi Arabia sold 640,000 tons, a near three-fold increase.
These three led Arab countries in the amount of fertilizers shipped to the Brazilian market year-to-date until November, but other countries in the regions also sold to Brazil: Bahrain, Oman, Egypt, Kuwait, UAE, Algeria, Tunisia and Jordan.
In November, Brazil imported 2.3 million tons of fertilizers, an increase of 20% over the same month of last year.
Domestic production
The domestic production of fertilizers dropped 1.7% year-to-date until November with 8.2 million tons, and 3.1% over last month with 761,500 tons.
Overall purchases of fertilizers in the Brazilian market totaled 3.2 million tons in November, up 29.2% over the same month of 2015, and 31.4 million of tons in the first eleven months of the year, an increase of 11.4%.
*Translated by Sérgio Kakitani
