Continent: America

Official Name: Federative Republic of Brazil

Type of Government: Presidential

Head of State: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva

Area: 8,514,876 km²

Currency: Brazilian Real (BRL)

Population: 216 million inhabitants

Capital: Brasília

Main Cities: São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre, Salvador de Bahia, Fortaleza, Curitiba, Recife, Belém, Goiânia

Official Language: Portuguese

Agreements and Conventions

Several cooperation agreements exist between Côte d'Ivoire and Brazil, including:

  • A bilateral debt restructuring contract for the remaining debt owed to Brazil, amounting to 1.263 million USD, signed on March 8, 2018, by the Ambassador of Côte d'Ivoire in Brazil and the representative of the Brazilian Ministry of Finance;

  • An air services agreement between the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil, signed on October 13, 2017, in Abidjan;

  • A technical cooperation agreement on the sustainable development of aquaculture and fisheries (July 21, 2014);

  • Funding of 430 million CFA francs for the sustainable fisheries and aquaculture development project by the Brazilian Government (April 23, 2014);

  • A Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil for the reactivation of the Joint Commission on Economic, Technical, Cultural, Commercial, Scientific, and Technological Cooperation, signed on February 4, 2014, in Brasília;

  • A Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil on the establishment of a consultation mechanism, signed on February 4, 2014, in Brasília;

  • A Memorandum of Understanding between the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (BGE), the Brazilian Cooperation Agency (ABC), and the National Institute of Statistics of Côte d'Ivoire (INS) for the General Population Census of Côte d'Ivoire (RGPH), signed on February 4, 2014, in Brasília;

  • Debt cancellation of Côte d'Ivoire's obligations to Brazil (November 30, 2013);

  • An additional protocol to the technical and scientific cooperation agreement between the Government of the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire and the Government of the Federative Republic of Brazil (May 1987);

  • Three cooperation agreements in the fields of sports, public administration, women's promotion, and social affairs (March 19, 1983).

A. Main Exports from Côte d'Ivoire to Brazil: Cocoa beans, processed cocoa, cashew nuts, and rubber.

B. Main Imports of Côte d'Ivoire from Brazil: Meat and edible offal, sugar, beverages, tobacco, plastics, iron-steel and steel products, chemicals, and non-compressible equipment (mechanical and electrical machines).

 

Sources : DGE-DPPSE

 

  • The value of bilateral trade reached 163.3 billion CFA francs in 2023, compared to 204.3 billion CFA francs in 2022;

  • Over the period from 2019 to 2023, the average value of Ivorian exports is estimated at 62.6 billion CFA francs per year, compared to 79.7 billion CFA francs per year for imports;

  • Over the period from 2019 to 2023, the trade balance was negative for Côte d'Ivoire, except for 2019.