The competitiveness of Brazilian agribusiness in international trade

Abstract

Becoming globally competitive has proved more and more to be a challenge not only for Brazil, but for all countries. However, knowing the dynamics of international trade, to verify whether the export agenda is in line with the world demand can be a step towards decision-making for the attaining of better efficiency for Brazil’s international insertion. The objective of this study was to analyze the insertion of Brazil’s agribusiness in the international agricultural trade, and to identify the ranking of its products in comparison with the world, considering the 2005-2007 and 2015-2017 triennia, based on the methodology suggested by Fajnzylber (1991). It was possible to identify that the situation is favorable, since 46.51% of the country’s export total value in agribusiness products, in the 2015-2017 triennium, is composed of 150 products classified in an optimum situation, according to the proposed methodological approach.