Programs > DCS > Brazil
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)