Backing up my cash: Agricultural products soybeans, coffee (world's largest producer), tobacco, sugar cane (world's third-largest producer), cocoa beans (world's second-largest producer), maize, rice, cassava, oranges; livestock (beef and poultry).
second producer of ethanol
These are all things that you plant and harvest next year.
Then there are mining:
Resources iron ore (world's second-largest producer), tin (world's fourth-largest producer), aluminium (world's fourth-largest producer), gold, phosphates, platinum, bauxite, uranium, manganese, coal, copper, petroleum, natural gas, hydroelectric power, forests
and it is gunning to become third oil producer,
Industries mining, steel, machinery and transport equipment, food processing, textiles and clothing, chemicals, petrochemicals, cement, lumber.
Exports steel products, transport equipment, coffee, iron ore and concentrates, aluminium, iron, tin, soybeans, chemical products, orange juice (85% of world's concentrates), tobacco, leather footwear, sugar, beef, textiles. Principal market: USA 19.2% (2005) Imports mineral fuels, machinery and mechanical appliances, chemical products, foodstuffs, transport equipment and parts, fertilizers, cast iron and steel. |
