Brazil expands leadership in the world ranking of agricultural surpluses

Brazil has consolidated itself over the past 25 years as the largest net exporter (difference between exports and imports) of agricultural products in the world, despite persistent protectionism and growing sanitary and phytosanitary barriers in the global food trade. This is confirmed by a survey recently concluded by the World Trade Organization (WTO), which reinforces the prospects that this trend, which has become more acute since the year 2000, should still deepen. The WTO secretariat prepared the study for the 25th anniversary of the agricultural agreement seized by the organization, and Brazil is certainly one of its highlights. If it was already the world's largest exporter of commodities such as sugar, coffee and orange juice in 1995, in the following decades the country also took the lead in shipments of soybeans, the most traded agricultural product on the international market, and established itself as one of the largest on the planet also in maize, cotton and meat. ...