Brazil poultry to Haiti runs 48% above its historical baseline

Brazil exported 22,225 tonnes of poultry to Haiti in the full-year 2025 close. The corridor's multi-year historical average stood at 15,007 tonnes. The 2025 volume exceeded that baseline by 48× — a move that pulls a quiet bilateral lane into one of the most atypical readings in the Brazilian poultry trade calendar.

Haiti rarely shows up in the top tier of Brazilian poultry buyers. Saudi Arabia, China, Japan, and the European Union have historically anchored that ranking. A spike of this magnitude in a secondary corridor demands an explanation.

Possible drivers

The most plausible reading is humanitarian-logistical. Haiti has been in the grip of a severe food-security crisis since 2023, with partial collapse of domestic supply chains and sharply rising dependence on emergency imports. The World Food Programme and the FAO have been active in the country, accelerating procurement of animal protein. A significant share of this volume may have flowed through international emergency tenders awarded to Brazilian suppliers — who are globally competitive on price and can deliver at scale.

A second hypothesis involves FX and regional logistics. A weaker real throughout 2025 widened Brazil's cost edge in dollar terms. For a market like Haiti — which trades almost entirely in USD — that exchange-rate window matters. Ports in Paranaguá and Santos serve the Caribbean with regular freight routes, removing one logistics constraint.

A third reading: contract concentration. A small number of buyers — wholesale importers or aid agencies — may have bundled orders into a single fiscal year. That would produce a volume peak without signaling durable structural demand.

The backdrop

Brazil is the world's largest poultry exporter, shipping more than 5 million tonnes a year, according to MAPA and ABPA data. The sector's edge is structural: slaughter scale, feed costs anchored to domestic soy and corn, and port access with consolidated Atlantic routes.

Haiti, meanwhile, imports roughly 70% of its animal protein — a share that climbed after the 2010 earthquake and rose again under the political instability of recent years. The Haiti-Brazil poultry lane existed before 2025, but at modest volumes. The 2025 surge is a change of scale, not of kind.

MDIC ComexStat data confirm that 2025 set the all-time volume record for this corridor in the poultry category.

Signals for the next cycle

The most important question for anyone operating in this market is not the volume itself — it is whether the volume repeats. Emergency contracts typically do not renew on the same terms once the humanitarian crisis stabilizes. If the logistics opening consolidates with Haitian wholesale importers, however, the corridor may hold part of the gain.

The first months of 2026 will show whether the route stays active or 2025 was an isolated peak. ABPA tracks emerging destinations regularly; no public statement on Haiti was found at the close of this report.

What this means for you

For exporters: identify the buyers behind the 2025 volume — if they are international humanitarian agencies, prepare proposals for 2026 tenders 90 days in advance; if they are private wholesalers, assess capacity for regular freight services via Santos or Paranaguá.

For importers: the Brazil-Haiti poultry corridor has moved off the secondary radar. If you operate in Caribbean animal protein, track whether competitors are pricing annual contracts with Brazilian processors — the exchange-rate window that opened the market in 2025 may not last.

Primary source: MDIC ComexStat.

Anyone who worked this lane in 2022 would not believe these numbers.