Where Does Brazil’s Frozen Beef Go? Find Out with Commodity Explorer

Datamar’s free tool lets users navigate through destinations, volumes and ports by product; a search for frozen beef shows that 68% of shipments by weight went to the Far East / Japan / Southeast Asia regional grouping.

A search for a commodity can reveal its main destination markets, changes in trade volumes over time, and the ports used for shipments, including for Brazilian frozen beef exports. That is the purpose of Commodity Explorer, a free Datamar tool that lets users explore foreign trade data by commodity name or four-digit Harmonized System (HS4) code.

Frozen beef provides an example of what users can discover. In the report covering HS4 code 0202, the Far East / Japan / Southeast Asia regional grouping accounted for 68% of Brazilian shipments by weight recorded by Datamar between January 2024 and December 2025.

The data provide a view of how exports are concentrated in this region and open the door to further queries within the same report: what are the other destinations, how do volumes change from month to month, and which ports handle the product’s shipments from Brazil?

Explore the Destinations of Brazilian Frozen Beef Exports

For frozen beef, the Mediterranean / Black Sea region ranks second, accounting for 9% of shipped weight. The Middle East / Indian Subcontinent grouping represents 6%, while the U.S. Gulf / Mexico accounts for 5%.

The East Coast of North America and Northern Europe / Baltic each account for 4%. The report also includes other regional groupings, covering a total of 13 destination routes.

Main regions featured in the report. Percentages are rounded; the table does not include all destination routes.

The trade flow map organizes these destinations into regional groupings. The 68% share therefore refers to the Far East / Japan / Southeast Asia grouping as a whole, rather than to any individual country.

Discover the Ports Used for Shipments

In addition to destinations, Commodity Explorer allows users to examine the distribution of shipment volumes by port. In the frozen beef example, Santos and Paranaguá together accounted for 83% of exported weight during the period.

Santos accounted for 55%, with approximately 2.9 million metric tons, while Paranaguá represented 28%, with around 1.5 million metric tons. Itapoá followed with 7%, or 356,400 metric tons, and Vila do Conde with 4%, or 227,400 metric tons.

Datamar’s records of Brazilian frozen beef exports totaled approximately 5.2 million metric tons in gross exported weight between January 2024 and December 2025. By combining port distribution, destinations and monthly data, the report offers different perspectives on the product’s trade flows.

Compare Data Sources and Track Volumes

For Brazil, Commodity Explorer displays Datamar’s records alongside official statistics from the Ministry of Development, Industry, Trade and Services (MDIC).

In the frozen beef report, official data total approximately 4.9 million metric tons in net weight over the period. Comparing the figures requires attention to methodology: Datamar’s records use gross weight, including packaging, while the official database reports the net weight of the merchandise.

In a separate section, the tool shows the proportion of records in Datamar’s database that identify the actual exporter. In this example, the figure stands at 92.8%. This is an indicator of database coverage; Commodity Explorer does not provide a list of those companies.

Search for Your Commodity

The frozen beef report is just a starting point. To explore another product, simply enter its name or HS4 code, select a country and access the available report.

Commodity Explorer offers searches covering Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Peru and Paraguay. Access is free upon verification of a corporate email address, with a limit of 10 reports per month per email address.

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Data source for this example: Commodity Explorer, Datamar. Brazilian frozen beef exports, HS4 0202, January 2024–December 2025. Volumes and shares are presented using the rounding applied in the report.

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