OREANDA-NEWS The value of Russian goods shipped to Brazil in January-September increased 20-fold year-on-year, to $68 million, according to expert data cited by the federal Agroexport Center.

In physical terms, exports from Russia to this BRICS country increased 162 times during the reporting period, to more than 250 thousand tons of agricultural products, the materials say.

It is noted that the driver of such a rapid increase in supplies was domestic wheat, which had not previously been supplied to Brazil. In addition, the Latin American country buys potato flakes, active yeast, dried cod and other products from Russia, among which frozen cod, as well as cod fillets and sauerkraut appeared for the first time.

According to the Brazilian statistical service, in October, shipments of fish from Russia to the country increased 2.1 times month—on-month, and 15 times year-on-year.