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  "slug": "soybeans-trade",
  "kind": "flow",
  "title": "Soybeans: the leading trade routes",
  "subtitle": "15 retained leading routes · 2024",
  "takeaway": "Brazil → China is the largest retained route. Displayed routes cover 77.0% of primary-line world trade.",
  "period": "2024",
  "unit": "USD",
  "publisher": "CEPII BACI via Commodity Origins",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
  "licenseUrl": "https://commodityorigins.com/sources/",
  "attribution": "CEPII BACI; derived primary-HS-line corridor snapshot from Commodity Origins.",
  "retrievedAt": null,
  "vintage": "2026-10-10T22:48:06.733043+00:00",
  "method": "Ribbon widths represent USD value for the 15 retained leading exporter–importer routes. These represent 77.0% of primary-line world value (1967 total corridors). Node totals cover displayed routes only.",
  "notes": [
    "Selected primary HS line only, not all soybeans products or physical tonnage. Reporting year 2024; snapshot generated 2026-10-10. Acquisition date is not supplied.",
    "Other routes are omitted. The data export contains exactly the displayed routes; broader commodity coverage is in the linked retained snapshot."
  ],
  "explorer": "/patterns/trade-flows/",
  "rows": [
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      "place": "Brazil",
      "code": "BRA",
      "destination": "China",
      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "31526530140",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 39.1554801845045,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · BRA → CHN"
    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "China",
      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "12561362093",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 15.601024354367704,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · USA → CHN"
    },
    {
      "place": "Paraguay",
      "code": "PRY",
      "destination": "Argentina",
      "destinationCode": "ARG",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "2746583068",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 3.411215202453281,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Mexico",
      "destinationCode": "MEX",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "2304737185",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 2.862449206335594,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · USA → MEX"
    },
    {
      "place": "Argentina",
      "code": "ARG",
      "destination": "China",
      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1819982229",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 2.2603907815831654,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · ARG → CHN"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brazil",
      "code": "BRA",
      "destination": "Spain",
      "destinationCode": "ESP",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1771161533",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 2.1997562053601283,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · BRA → ESP"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brazil",
      "code": "BRA",
      "destination": "Thailand",
      "destinationCode": "THA",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1510104614",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 1.87552740588425,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Indonesia",
      "destinationCode": "IDN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1250426028",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Japan",
      "destinationCode": "JPN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1171233741",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · USA → JPN"
    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Germany",
      "destinationCode": "DEU",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1072209980.9999999",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · USA → DEU"
    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Egypt",
      "destinationCode": "EGY",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1034988785",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Brazil",
      "code": "BRA",
      "destination": "Turkey (Türkiye)",
      "destinationCode": "TUR",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "1005483760",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 1.2487958321353367,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Brazil",
      "code": "BRA",
      "destination": "Iran",
      "destinationCode": "IRN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "826536571",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 1.0265460925716323,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · BRA → IRN"
    },
    {
      "place": "Brazil",
      "code": "BRA",
      "destination": "Mexico",
      "destinationCode": "MEX",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "693548706",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 0.8613771478871584,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · BRA → MEX"
    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Spain",
      "destinationCode": "ESP",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "679713257",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 0.844193726598563,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · soybeans · USA → ESP"
    }
  ],
  "commodity": "soybeans",
  "topic": "Trade routes",
  "coveragePct": 76.9715308877474
}