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Brazil managed to significantly change its foreign trade, a fact that occurred in recent decades, until the years 60 the country had production restricted to the exportation of primary products such as coffee, which at the beginning of the century was responsible for 70 of all Export of the country, and subsequently other products have gained prominence, such as cocoa, cotton, tobacco, sugar, wood, meats, ores (mainly iron and manganese).

Today the economy is more complex and diversified, presenting exports of industrialized and processed products (Semimanuinvoados), footwear, orange juice, fabrics, fuels, beverages, industrialized foods, boilers, armaments, Chemical products, vehicles of all sizes and their respective spare parts and airplanes.

Industrialized and semi-billed products, in the year 1960, corresponded to only 5 of the total exports of the country, in 2005 this type of production already accounted 60 of all foreign trade in Brazil, which indicates and evidences the economic advances caused Modernization of the industrial sector.

The percentage varies according to the year’s income, which can be from 55 to 65, for example, in the year that an increase in aircraft sales this data is high. In contrast, when there is an increase in agricultural production and exportation, as in the case of soybean, there is a growth in the percentage of primary products.