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state of the existance of global players did not take place yet, as those firms simply do not exist, but is highly probable because of the growing inland demand and the financial potential the country has, especially due to the availability of many raw materials.

4.与世界其他地区的比较-4. Comparison to the rest of the world

Brazil is obviously in the middle of the development from a typical former colony, a development country to be an industrial state competing with the big ones in the world. Due to the size of Brazil and its population, this includes a change in the international role of Brazil, which means bigger power, but also, as for Spiderman, a greater responsibility. To find out where Brazil stands today, besides the raw figures of GDP and poverty rates, we have to take a look at all the countries in the world. Surely we can say that Brazil is still far away from the standards the highly developed states as the USA, Denmark, Japan or Australia have. But Brazil is also ahead of a lot of states - nearly all African ones, the poorer Asian ones like Vietnam or Indonesia or some of the direct neighbour countries like Bolivia, Paraguay or Venezuela.

Therefore Brazil is often named as a part of the BRIC-countries. BRIC stands for Brazil, Russia, India and China, four countries, all very big in terms of area and population in a similar stage of its economic development. [15] While Russia fell back after the breakdown of the Soviet Union and is only slowly recovering, Brazil, India and China started a rally of growth, more or less constant, that brought them into their actual positions as states with an economy in the transition to a production and service orientation, decreasing poverty and growing political and economic power. The general assumption is, that those states, and with them Brazil, will reach an economic status comparable to the less wealthy industrial states in a foreseeable future. [16]

5.外贸-5. Foreign trade

Brazil's foreign trade is still dominated by the export of agricultural products like sugar and coffe and the exports of raw materials like iron ore and the products of those raw materials. But the home industry also exports transport equipment, cars and clothing. Of the export of 153 billion USD in 2009, decreased by nearly 25% by the worldwide financial crisis compared to 2008, 12,5% went to China, 10,5% to the USA, 8,4% to Argentina, 5,4% to the Netherlands and 4,1% to Germany, which are the five biggest export partners of Brazil, showing a worldwide distribution of those partners. [17]

The important important products and import partners makes clearer that Brazil is in the middle of the transition to an industrial state. The main products are machinery, electrical and transport equipment, chemical products, oil, automotive parts and electronics. The oil imported is a certain type of oil needed for the refinery of petroleum, but the rest are imports serving the producing industries to produce goods to serve the inland and foreign demand. This shows that Brazil isn't exporting raw materials and buying the resulting goods any more but importing materials itself to sell those goods again, what is the most important difference between a development country and an industrial country. The most important trade partners are the USA with 16,1%, China with 12,6%, Argentina with 8,8%, Germany with 7,7% and Japan with 4,3% of the impo