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Commodity dependence is a high proportion of commodities in a country's exports. Therefore, a commodity-dependent country is a country in which commodities constitute the predominant share of its exports, that is when more than 60% of the merchandise a country exports, in value terms, are commodities. [2]
The following is a list of the exports of Brazil. Data is for 2012, in billions of United States dollars , as reported by The Observatory of Economic Complexity . Currently the top twenty exports are listed.
The main investors in Brazil are the United States, Spain, and Belgium. With the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff and the embezzlement scandal behind them, Brazil is set to benefit from stronger commodity prices and attract more foreign investment. [131] Brazil's top exports in 2015 were soya, petroleum, iron ore, raw cane sugar, and oil-cake. [132]
Brazil's natural environment still suffers from the effects of the aggressive policy of demographic occupation and economic development enforced by the military government from 1964 to 1985. [15] The aim of this was to ease the population pressure in the heavily populated southeast region of Brazil, to create jobs and make use of Brazil's vast ...
The Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Portuguese: Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis, IBAMA) is the Brazilian Ministry of the Environment's administrative arm.
In 2019, among the ten products that Brazil exports the most and that generate the most value, eight come from the agribusiness. Although still modest, the country's exports have evolved, and today they are more diversified than they were in the past. At the beginning of the 20th century, 70% of Brazilian exports were restricted to coffee.
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The Brazilian Foreign Ministry has ApexBrasil in its portfolio.. Under Federal Law 10668/2003 and Presidential Decree 4584/2003 (substantially amended in 2016), ApexBrasil's corporate structure is composed by three main bodies: the Governing Board, the Managing Board and the Audit Committee.