# Ecuador exports to Brazil: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

Understand reported exports from Ecuador to Brazil, the product routes that need a closer look, and the conditions that may affect planning.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/corridor/ECU-BRA/risk

## Route overview

In 2024, Ecuador reported $104.6M in goods exports to Brazil. The overall review level is Watch.

## How to read this page

High attention means one or more conditions on these product types deserve a closer look. It is not a prediction that trade will stop or that a loss is certain. An HS6 code is the international six-digit code used to describe and compare traded goods.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value | What it means |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Latest reported exports | $104.6M | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 31.2% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 0 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 9 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 1 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 31.9% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 780110 | Lead: unwrought, refined | $105.7M | 44.2% | Watch |
| 2 | 740400 | Copper: waste and scrap | $151.5M | 0% | Stable |
| 3 | 780191 | Lead: unwrought, unrefined, containing by weight antimony as the principal other element | $51.1M | 0% | Watch |
| 4 | 170490 | Sugar confectionery: (excluding chewing gum, including white chocolate), not containing cocoa | $45.5M | 60.9% | Watch |
| 5 | 160414 | Fish preparations: tunas, skipjack and Atlantic bonito (sarda spp.), prepared or preserved, whole or in pieces (but not minced) | $15.4M | 76.4% | High attention |
| 6 | 160420 | Fish preparations: fish minced or in forms n.e.c. in heading no. 1604, prepared or preserved | $26.5M | 56.9% | Watch |
| 7 | 030617 | Crustaceans: frozen, shrimps and prawns, excluding cold-water varieties, in shell or not, smoked, cooked or not before or during smoking: in shell, cooked by steaming or by boiling in water | $17.4M | 0% | High attention |
| 8 | 392190 | Plastics: plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, other than cellular | $157.6M | 0% | Watch |
| 9 | 180310 | Cocoa: paste, not defatted | $27.9M | 0% | High attention |
| 10 | 151110 | Vegetable oils: palm oil and its fractions, crude, not chemically modified | $50.4M | 87.9% | High attention |

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-29). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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