Brazil seeks to broaden chicken trade with India
While it is the world's largest exporter of the poultry, Brazil sells almost no chicken to India due to prohibitive import tariffs, informs Reuters.
In 2025, it exported only 2.47 tons of chicken to India, while the United Arab Emirates, its top destination, purchased 479,900 tons, according to trade data.
"We discussed expanding trade relations," Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro said in a statement.
Brazil is ready to open up for imports of pomegranates and macadamia nuts from India. "In return, we are seeking the opening for guandu beans, along with expanding opportunities for Brazilian chicken meat and yerba mate,” Favaro said.
Favaro's meeting with his Indian counterpart was part of Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva's mission in New Delhi. The meetings there made room for “concrete progress” in bilateral agricultural trade, Favaro said.
India levies tariffs of 100% on chicken cuts and a 30% duty on whole chicken imports, which makes trade nearly impossible, ABPA said. It called talks aimed at tariff reductions "a priority".
To facilitate trade flow, ABPA presented a proposal for creating a specific quota with reduced or zero tariffs for Brazilian chicken.
It remains unclear what the Indian government will do.
Regarding pork, ABPA said that although the Indian market is already open from a sanitary standpoint, the 26% tariff also limits the viability of exports.
In 2025, total bilateral trade between India and Brazil reached $15 billion, up 25.5% from the previous year, and the shared goal is to raise that figure to $20 billion by 2030, the ministry said.
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