Diversity vital in exports to China

Brazil should expand its exports of processed food to diversify the mix of goods sold to China, said Jose Vicente Lessa, consul general of Brazil in Guangzhou, Guangdong province.

Soybean, iron ore and oil products account for 79 percent of Brazil's exports to China. "We should not focus on primary products," Lessa said.

Brazil also exports sugar, leather, meat, soy oil, paper pulp and airplanes. Its main imports from China include machinery, electrical materials, integrated circuits, chemicals, plastics and cars.