COMMODITIES
A commodity is a basic good used in commerce that is interchangeable with other commodities of the same type; commodities are most often used as inputs in the production of other goods or services. The quality of a given commodity may differ slightly, but it is essentially uniform across producers
SOYABEAN Brazil will surpass the United States as the largest producer of soybeans this year, taking over the top ranking for the first time in history, oilseeds crusher group in North America or soya bean, is a species of legume native to East Asia and South America, widely grown for its edible bean which has numerous uses.
Fat-free (de fatted) soybean meal is a significant and cheap source of protein for animal feeds and many packaged meals.
PETROLEUM PRODUCT
In Brazil, petroleum industry is involved in the global processes of exploration, extraction, refining, transporting (often with oil tankers and pipelines, and marketing petroleum products. The largest volume products of the industry are fuel oil and gasoline.
ICUMSA 45
In Brazil SGS has an ICUMSA rating of 45 rbu for refined, indicating the highest quality, with other grades of lower quality (such as Special Extra Crystal) having a higher ICUMSA of 150 and so forth.
SOYA BEAN OIL
Soybean oil is a vegetable oil extracted from the seeds of the soybean (Glycine max). It is one of the most widely consumed cooking oils. As a drying oil, processed soybean oil is also used as a base for printing inks (soy ink) and oil paints.
Brazilian Corn
Maize has become a staple food in many parts of the world, with total production surpassing that of wheat or rice. However, not all of this maize is consumed directly by humans. Some of the maize production is used for corn ethanol, animal feed and other maize products, such as corn starch and corn syrup. The six major types of corn are dent corn, flint corn, pod corn, popcorn, flour corn, and sweet corn.
Iron Ore
Brazil is one of the many countries in the world that produces a substantial amount of minerals. The mining sector of the country comprises almost 7% of its GDP. With rich mineral resources, Brazil is a leading mineral exporter in the world.
Brazilian Coffee
Coffee production in Brazil is responsible for about a third of all coffee, making Brazil by far the world's largest producer, a position the country has held for the last 150 years. Coffee plantations, covering some 27,000 km2 (10,000 sq mi), are mainly located in the southeastern states of Minas Gerais, São Paulo and Paraná where the environment and climate provide ideal growing conditions.
Brazilian Tobacco
The harvest in the states of Paraná, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul was 504 728 tonnes of tobacco, with a gross income of $R 1.23 billion, implying an average gross income per family farm of $R 9 164.63, from average production of 3.74 tonne/ha - a record high.
Brazilian Gold
Brazilian Gold in Brazil has a long history stretching as far back as the 1700s, when a gold rush in the then-Portuguese colony opened the country up to the major gold-producing region of Ouro Preto — Portuguese for “black gold.”
Since those early days, mining has continued to be an important driver of the Brazilian economy, which is the largest in Latin America and the ninth largest in the world.
Fruit Juice
Brazil started exporting oranges in the 1960s when Florida, previously the world's biggest orange producer, was hit by a citrus greening disease, which makes the fruit unpalatable and eventually kills the trees.
By the 1980s, Brazilian orange producers had achieved a global dominance that remains to this day.