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last updated:9/26/03

Direct Commercial Sales (DCS): Brazil

Data about DCS licenses do not necessarily refer to final sales; they indicate only that the State Department has granted permission for a possible sale. The State Department estimates that about half of all export licenses it grants result in actual deliveries.1  

Table 1: 2000-2002

Commodity 
2000 
2001 
2002 
2003
Quantity  License value  Quantity  License value  Quantity  License value  Quantity  License value 
Accelerometers          10  2,700 
Agreements, mfg. and tech. assistance             
400,000
Aircraft Aerial Refueling Spare Parts
Aircraft attack A-4 spare parts         3,965    3,090,622 
Aircraft cargo C-130 spare parts  0  100    4,000,000     
6,240,567
Aircraft fighter F-5 spare parts  0  3,408    1,500,000    7,873,241 
5,232,402
Aircraft ground support equip.        1,500,000    8,278 
14,699
Aircraft spare parts, miscellaneous  0  6,100,119    2,428,840    6,511,504 
0
61,513,298
Ammunition manufacturing equipment  0  1,305         
Ammunition raw materials  0  228,787    964,128    781,286 
968,229
Amplifiers and amplification equipment        7,200    394,800 
28,291
Antennas (radio and communications types)  0  980    8,950    1,584,320 
1,239,037
Armored personnel carrier M-113 spare parts   0  57,380    1,116     
7,489
Armored vehicle spare parts and sup equip  0  480         
Artillery fuzes  0  280,440    39,040    1,005,159 
Auxillary Military Equip & Spare Parts
20,820
Battery chargers (all models)             
18,081
Battery Component Parts            
296,662
Binoculars             
1
2,830
Bomb components and spare parts             
Bomb detection equipment             5,703,000 
Breathing equipment (underwater models)  0  48,265        19,850 
92,252
Breathing Equip (gas masks etc.)            10,795 
Carbine (all types)  1,136,750  1,111,460  3  825     
183
301,809
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal  0  944,638  4,108,300  938,084  1,056,600  715,700 
215,720
498,032
Cartridges 75mm through 90mm             
Cartridges explosive        250,917     
Cartridges impulse  0  58,890         
8
4,995
Cartridges initiation             
660
Chemical agent dispensing equipment  0  103,714         
Chemical agents and herbicides        703,772    8,318 
116,062
Communications equipment and components  3  15,720,000        10,856 
2,837,295
Computer components and spare parts            63,028 
Computer peripheral equipment (CRTs etc.)  0  57,160         
Crypto equip components and spare parts             
Crypto machines             
Direction finders (all models)  1  5,361,096         
DD-Destroyer             
Electronic countermeasures equipment  0           
Electronics components and spare parts    182,999,502    1,098,497    3,812,039 
0
4,897,780
Electronic Equip (misc.)        1,720    189,087 
298,200
Electronic Testing Equip            
51,708
Engine (misc. aircraft models)             
Engine diesel (all models)  18  25,900         
Engine jet J-85 series             
Engine jet J-85 spare parts        33,450,216     
Engine jet T-53 spare parts             
17,186
Engine jet T-56 spare parts        22,776  5  1,166,560 
Engine jet T-58 spare parts             
Engine jet T-64 spare parts        19,163,344     
Engine, T700-GE-701C             
Engine spare parts and components misc.        563,555     
24,180
Explosives             
Fire control system parts and components  0  501,002         
59,123
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) parts             
9
5,807,690
Generators        130,680     
84
910,835
Generator parts and components             
Global Positioning System (GPS) equip        3,204     
Grenade Launcher (all models)      21  49,730     
Grenade Launcher spare parts            519 
Gyrocompass components and spare parts            22,617 
0
434
Gyroscope components and spare parts        21,739    1,024 
Gyroscopes  39  74,250  1  8,715     
Helicopter S-70A series          1  5,835,000 
Helicopter supp equip spare parts  0  2,021,252    503,987    4,471,910 
60,041
Helmets pilot (all models)  0  43,467  40  35,600  1,784  2,796,926 
95
92,085
Helmets protective (all models)      16  15,825  39  46,965 
5
4,750
Image intensifiers      2  15,182  78  155,467 
1
999
Image intensifier spare parts  0  12,879         
Inertial navigation systems (all models)  0  18,950  10  1,200,000  52  3,902,078 
80
6,685,910
Inertial navigation systems spare parts        19,153     
471,200
Inertial reference systmes (all models)            4,335 
Infrared detectors             
Infrared viewer spare parts            689,054 
Infrared viewer           1  400,000 
1
50,915
Machine gun (all types)      5  103,495     
Machine gun spares             
71,200
Magnetometers             
Missile launchers (excluding TOW)             
Missile launcher spare parts & sup equipment            91,200 
Missile spare parts (non-specific type)        66,672     
17,143
Missile, TOW spare parts and support equipment             
Night vision goggles  0  8,780        499,248 
8,868
Night vision scopes (crew serve weapons)             
Night vision scopes spares and components  0  1,540,053    7,800,340    491,353 
2,425,957
Oscillators          17  31,044 
Parachutes (cargo)          15  130,380 
Patrol boat components and spare parts  1,243  83,286         
Peiscope (submarine models)        46,054    137,059 
Periscope spare parts and components  0  39,306    14,182    6,932 
Photographic equip & spare parts  0  30,615         
Pistols and revolvers  0  587,308  97  139,051    549,583 
83
33,419
Pistols and revolvers spare parts  0  2,064,755    295,467     
2,479,036
Propellants  0  484,963    45,700    18,426 
668,852
Protective equipment (suits, gloves, etc.)  155  22,931         
Protective equipment component parts  0  143,171    80,215    799,679 
6,095
Pyrotechnics        163,494    25,815 
Radio set (components and spare parts)            7,050 
Radar systems (ground fixed and portable)             
Radar systems (shipboard models)             
100
Radar systems components and spare parts  0  51,774,696    99,540    8,433,284 
Radiation Hardened Micro Elec. Circuits            
85,650
Radio Set (Componets & Spare Parts)            
11,388
Radio Sets (AN/AR C,R, T Series)             
1
11,215
Receiver sets (all models)             
Receiver / transmitters (all models)      1  147,027  8  383,696 
1
39,227
Receiver / transmitters components and spare parts            831 
Rifle (non-military, all types)  0  98,137  13,278  904,893  27  251,345 
17
11,750
Rifle M-16 (all models)          12  12,480 
17
31,907
Rifle M-16 spare parts and components            254 
1,359
Riot control equipment (police type eq)             
Rocket launcher components and spare parts             
Rockets components and spares  0  245,648         
224,625
Satellites equipment spare parts  0  31,848    2,100    1,091,397 
736,563
Scopes (Small Arms Type)            
3,762
Ship components and spare parts  0  49,511        5,000,000 
1,055
Small arms spare parts (rifle and carbine)  0  9,000    697,769    16,646 
0
62,647
Software XIIIB             
Speech and voice scramblers             
Sonar systems (AN/SSQ series)             
Sonar systems components and spare parts            3,738,867 
186,534
Submachine Guns          1  478 
Tank components and spare parts  0  9,907         
Technical data cat. I            124,563 
Technical data cat. II        1,000     
Technical data cat. IV  0  50    1,100    170 
3,100
Technical data cat V             
Technical data cat VI  0  2,656    1,500     
160
Technical data cat. VII  0  20    30,000     
Technical data cat. VIII  0  315,200    1,100    81,900 
595,827
Technical data cat IX  0  0         
Technical data cat. X            4,034 
Technical data cat. XI  0  25,040    620    270 
1
Technical data cat. XII  0  20    500    1,050 
Technical data cat. XIII             
Technical data cat. XIV             
Technical data cat. XV  0  285,000    23,930    3,898,825 
50,000
Technical data cat XXI             
Technical data cat XVII             
Technical data misc.            36,224 
Telephone equipment (all models)  0  8,521    175,800     
88,169
Television equip components and spare            2,250 
Torpedoes spare parts and support equipment        104,220    3,538 
155,307
Training equip. components and spare parts   0  38,000         
Training equipment (all types)   0  28,500    2,583,074    206,468 
19,760
Training equipment (various types)            2,235,980 
Transmitters (all models)      25  238,017  5  24,150 
675,310
Transponders          1  100,256 
122,m424
Traveling wave tubes      5  153,144     
Trucks military components and spares             
Vehicle military components and spares   0   188,700    359,344    3,053,110 
196,057
Weapons spare parts and components   0   500,000    23,925    2,000,000 
Total    274,391,046    82,954,033    84,766,873 
108,299,194



Table 2: 1996-1999




Commodity  1996  1997  1998  1999 
Quantity  License value  Quantity  License value  Quantity  License value  Quantity  License value 
Accelerometers        10,340    105,476     
Agreements, mfg. and tech. assistance  13  41,500,000  10  110,399,095  1  45,549,999     
Aircraft attack A-4 spare parts               0  607,739 
Aircraft cargo C-130 spare parts    8,519    28,703      0  20,000,000 
Aircraft fighter F-5 spare parts    1,572,369    1,158      0  5,892,789 
Aircraft ground support equip.                 
Aircraft spare parts, miscellaneous    5,614,009    4,666,250  1  9,044,637  0  41,978,207 
Ammunition manufacturing equipment    0             
Ammunition raw materials    649,608    435,064    2,073,096  0  271,596 
Amplifiers and amplification equipment        395,369  16  58,000  7  87,595 
Antennas (radio and communications types)  162  435,441    186,480    2,982  0  22,224 
Armored personnel carrier M-113 spare parts               0  1,755,840 
Armored vehicle spare parts and sup equip              0  400,000 
Artillery fuzes  4216  142,783  88,000  383,268  88,000  1,294,176  30,000  112,500 
Battery chargers (all models)                 
Binoculars  4  10,560             
Bomb components and spare parts    115,200    37,200      0  2,200 
Bomb detection equipment                  
Breathing equipment (underwater models)            133,206     
Breathing Equip (gas masks etc.)                 
Carbine (all types)              1,261  122,662 
Cartridges .22 cal through .50 cal  6832873  1,929,235  1,677,000  348,020  2,187,600  1,074,562  2,463,700  234,026 
Cartridges 75mm through 90mm  845  8,382             
Cartridges explosive                 
Cartridges impulse                 
Cartridges initiation      8  5,684  20  270     
Chemical agent dispensing equipment    35,128    5,942,500         
Chemical agents and herbicides    56,805    80,097    663,000  0  6,152 
Communications equipment and components    305,480    4,844,174    35,223  0  2,821 
Computer components and spare parts                 
Computer peripheral equipment (CRTs etc.)            158,345     
Crypto equip components and spare parts    2,239,670    2,000         
Crypto machines  1037  5,800,655  32  131,150         
Direction finders (all models)                 
DD-Destroyer          1  6,000,000     
Electronic countermeasures equipment    23,864        2,180,728  0  55,485 
Electronics components and spare parts    1,727,191    3,411,151    7,610,271  0  2,780,766 
Electronics Equip (misc.)                 
Engine (misc. aircraft models)          9  1,786,500     
Engine diesel (all models)        931,680         
Engine jet J-85 series        20,000,000         
Engine jet J-85 spare parts    10,517    40,006,343         
Engine jet T-56 spare parts                 
Engine jet T-58 spare parts        1,500,000         
Engine jet T-64 spare parts    37,708    20,088,692      0   14,035 
Engine, T700-GE-701C          1  4,571,109     
Engine spare parts and components misc.    590    11,008      0   27,045 
Explosives    268,720    824,543    225,770  0  9,446 
Fire control system parts and components        744    1,150  0   1,600 
Forward looking infrared (FLIR) parts            8,800,000     
Generators  1  1,068             
Generator parts and components            173,400     
Global Positioning System (GPS) equip                 
Grenade Launcher (all models)                 
Grenade Launcher spare parts                 
Gyrocompass components and spare parts                 
Gyroscope components and spare parts        35,915    7,097     
Gyroscopes  4  38,700    351,050  2  13,002  2  19,712 
Helicopter S-70A series      4  47,175,934         
Helicopter supp equip spare parts    11,691    1,502,452      0   3,000,000 
Helmets pilot (all models)      6  3,716  67  39,429  102  188,910 
Helmets protective (all models)  28  26,600  8  10,236  133  141,621  27  16,944 
Image intensifiers  1  1,995        26,178     
Image intensifier spare parts                 
Inertial navigation systems (all models)              1  383,995 
Inertial navigation systems spare parts            17,818  0  628,773 
Inertial reference systmes (all models)                 
Infrared detectors          3  25,500     
Infrared viewer spare parts                 
Infrared viewer                  
Machine gun (all types)                 
Machine gun spares    108,000        2,015,496     
Magnetometers      13  124,460         
Missile launchers (excluding TOW)            1,892     
Missile launcher spare parts & sup equipment                 
Missile spare parts (non-specific type)        349,705      0  5,399 
Missile, TOW spare parts and support equipment            20     
Night vision goggles  1  966,055    29,385         
Night vision scopes (crew serve weapons)              4  23,426 
Night vision scopes spares and components    47,280    135,294    6,942  0  92,892 
Oscillators    711      3  55,500  12  102,000 
Parachutes (cargo)                 
Patrol boat components and spare parts                 
Peiscope (submarine models)                 
Periscope spare parts and components    196,761    355    4,799,117  0  112,653 
Photographic equip & spare parts                 
Pistols and revolvers  3732  471,531  22  45,808  621  73,680  34  22,248 
Pistols and revolvers spare parts    2,129,859    2,483,565    4,052,463  0  2,438,792 
Propellants    7,591    45,643    20,677  0  252,677 
Protective equipment (suits, gloves, etc.)    698        813     
Protective equipment component parts    32,311  1  68,200    29,138  0  145,596 
Pyrotechnics    29,400    52,789    15,422     
Radio set (components and spare parts)        34,525    80,485  0  43,365 
Radar systems (shipboard models)    500             
Radar systems (ground fixed and portable)          1  5,594,211     
Radar systems components and spare parts    30,250        846,350  0  516,120 
Receiver sets (all models)  9  23,283          0  90,000 
Receiver / transmitters (all models)    36,038    318,792  15  427,920  2  109,460 
Receiver / transmitters components and spare parts        109,645         
Rifle (non-military, all types)  2  682  11  6,235  18  7,345  30  25,875 
Rifle M-16 (all models)  13  11,883        696     
Rifle M-16 spare parts and components                 
Riot control equipment (police type eq)              0  1,500 
Rocket launcher components and spare parts              0  4,770 
Rockets components and spares    225,000    130,237      0  2,913,806 
Satellites equipment spare parts    54,733    669,487    104,542  0  51,980 
Ship components and spare parts    21,000    6,714,540    12,102,379  0  339,956 
Small arms spare parts (rifle and carbine)    63,151    155,530    305,643  0  115,203 
Software XIIIB    1,776,289    400         
Speech and voice scramblers  13  34,380             
Sonar systems (AN/SSQ series)          1  4,922,550     
Sonar systems components and spare parts        20,877,012         
Submachine Guns                 
Tank components and spare parts        12,617      0  960 
Technical data cat. I    0             
Technical data cat. II                 
Technical data cat. IV    4,002,100    650    1,040  0  200 
Technical data cat V              0  50 
Technical data cat VI        270    0     
Technical data cat. VII    0    0      0  (left blank) 
Technical data cat. VIII    11,010    3,133,495    2,500     
Technical data cat IX            500     
Technical data cat. X    0        0     
Technical data cat. XI    620    250    5,026  0  350 
Technical data cat. XII    0    0    0     
Technical data cat. XIII    1,200          0  (left blank) 
Technical data cat. XIV                 
Technical data cat. XV    100        50  0  5,000 
Technical data cat XXI              0  1,500 
Technical data cat XVII            150  0  120 
Technical data misc.                 
Telephone equipment (all models)            2,800     
Television equip components and spare                 
Torpedoes spare parts and support equipment            24,259     
Training equip. components and spare parts        220,000    16,200  0   123,500 
Training equipment (all types)    15,936    32,042    304,558  0  4,444,400 
Training equipment (various types)        2,072,243    83,133     
Transmitters (all models)    61,596    41,699      18  350,274 
Transponders      3  3,675      15  509,485 
Traveling wave tubes  1  14,763        15,700  1  162,700 
Trucks military components and spares    37,710        53,421  0  447 
Vehicle military components and spares    2,796,829    69,561    3,960,967     
Weapons spare parts and components    159,600        210,536  0  40,575 
Total    75,941,338    301,688,125    131,956,666    91,670,341 

 

Sources:

1 United States, Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, “Article: Revision of US Arms Exports Data Series,” World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers 1997 (Washington: ACDA, 1997, revised January 1999) <http://www.acda.gov/wmeat97/commerce.pdf>.

2 United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, Foreign Military Assistance Act Report To Congress, Fiscal Year 1996 (Washington: September 1997).

3 United States, Department of State, Department of Defense, U.S. Arms Exports: Direct Commercial Sales Authorizations for Fiscal Year 97 (Washington: August 1998): 1.

4 United States, Department of State, U.S. Arms Exports: Direct Commercial Sales Authorizations for Fiscal Year 98 (Washington: July 1999): 13-6.

5 United States, Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls, Report by the Department of State Pursuant to Sec. 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act (Washington: 2000) <http://www.pmdtc.org/docs/rpt655_9_99.pdf>.

6 United States, Department of State, Office of Defense Trade Controls, Report by the Department of State Pursuant to Sec. 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act (Washington: 2002) <http://www.pmdtc.org/docs/rpt655_2000.pdf>.

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