The construction of trade patterns in Brazil-China relations

Abstract

In this paper, our objective is to analyze the evolution of Brazil-China relations since its official re-establishment, in 1974, until the beginning of the 2000s, focusing on the commercial patterns that constituted these interactions. We show that it was at the end of the 1990s that the current pattern in trade relations between countries was consolidated - characterized, on the Brazilian side, by the sale of basic products and imports of Chinese manufactured goods, and, on the Chinese side, the opposite process: sale of manufactured goods and purchase of Brazilian basic goods. We argue that the establishment of such a pattern in the late 1990s, and which remains until today, reflects, on the one hand, the way in which countries have inserted themselves into the broader dynamics of the international economy, and, on the other, its own internal choices about which development paths to follow. To carry out the work, a bibliographic review and data collection from primary sources were used.