domíniobrasileiro
Brazilian domain
Exportações de açúcar do Brasil
Fonte:
Secex/Unica.
Ano
2015
2016
Volume (t)
24.012.213 28.932.360
Receita (US$mil)
7.641.353 10.435.387
Janeiro-Junho 2016
2017
Volume (t)
12.504.215 12.786.636
Receita (US$mil)
3.927.885 5.513.768
os clientes
The clients
Principais destinos (em toneladas)
Fonte:
Agrostat/Mapa – Editora Gazeta.
Países
2015
2016
Índia
1.518.573 2.443.653
China
2.506.779 2.403.146
Argélia
1.625.522 2.054.034
Bangladesh
2.465.857 1.934.355
Emirados Árabes 1.450.026 1.666.893
Nigéria
1.338.431 1.618.282
Indonésia
330.388 1.510.778
Malásia
981.197 1.469.609
Arábia Saudita 1.135.486 1.236.379
Marrocos
793.707 1.040.097
Speedy
shipments
T
he bigger national sugar produc-
tion volumes and a scenario of
tight supply at global level have
led Brazil, leading exporter, to in-
creaseconsiderably its shipments
abroadin2016(upmorethan20percentfrom
2015). The volume of sugar shipped abroad
reached28.9milliontonsandbroughtinreve-
nueof US$10.4billion. Inquantity, ahistorical
recordhighwashit,outstrippingthevolumeof
28million tons in 2010,which, up to that time,
hadbeenthebiggestintheseriessurveyedby
the Center for Applied Studies on Advanced
Economics (Cepea), of the Luiz de Queiroz
College of Agriculture (Esalq), linked to the
Universityof SãoPaulo (USP).
The sugar cane mills in São Paulo, State
that leads production and exports, have
even reduced their share in sugar sales in
the spot market, giving priority to exports,
saidCepeaofficials, inananalysis of the sec-
tor’s scenario in 2016. Nonetheless, in terms
of revenue from the foreign operations, in
2010and2013biggervolumeswereachieved
(US$ 12.8 billion and US$ 11.8 billion), ac-
cording to statistical figures surveyed by the
Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Food
Supply (Mapa) and by the Brazilian Sugar-
cane Industry Association (Unica).
The main destination for the Brazilian
sales in 2016 was India, country that is the
biggest consumer and second biggest glob-
al sugar producer, but had to grapple with
production problems. Its acquisitions out-
stripped the purchases by China, Bangla-
desh and Algeria, which had been the lead-
ing buyers of sugar fromBrazil in 2015. India
continued as biggest importer of the Brazil-
ian product (9.8 percent of the total) in the
first half of 2017, butwas anticipating the re-
sumption of its production in the next crop
year,whichshoulddiminish India’spurchas-
es, while China is increasing its tariffs, ulti-
mately affecting its import operations.
Favorable picture of the sector
hasledtheleadingsugarexportertoboostits
foreignsalesin2016,hittingahistoricalrecordhigh
From January through June 2017, Bra-
zilian sugar exports were on a par with
amounts shipped in the same period the
previous year, although revenue from the
sales has soared considerably, by some 40
percent, reaching the amount of US$ 5.5 bil-
lion, according to numbers released by the
Secretariat of Foreign Trade (Secex), dis-
closed by Unica. The National Food Sup-
ply Agency (Conab), in turn, judging by the
scenario of the crop, observed that “the
volume exported in June 2017 continued
on the same upward trend of the previous
month, influenced by the high value of the
dollar against the Brazilian currency, with a
monthly increase of 26.3 percent and annu-
al increase of 15 percent thismonth”.
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