Strategic Lens

Nuclear and space: Brazil and United States

First country

Second country

In 2025, United States sold USD 10.9 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft to Brazil.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, United States sold USD 10.9 million of nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft, and Brazil sold almost none.
  • BothTwo-way trade in nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft is 65 percent below its 2021 peak of USD 31.3 million.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

Brazil's exports to United States: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Brazil

2019: 0.5Low 0 / High 5.42025: 0.1

20190.5
20200
20210.2
20225.4
20231
20240.1
20250.1

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026

Brazil's imports from United States: nuclear materials, reactors and spacecraft

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Brazil

2019: 11.7Low 6.3 / High 31.12025: 10.9

201911.7
202017.2
202131.1
20226.3
20239.6
20247.1
202510.9

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026