The energy transition, digital transformation, and the realignment of global supply chains have heightened the importance of critical and strategic minerals on the international economic agenda. These minerals are essential inputs for technologies such as power generation and transmission, batteries and electromobility, semiconductors, advanced industrial equipment, as well as applications related to food security. In this regard, the debate over extraction, processing capacity, and market access takes center stage, while the search for supplier diversification and partnerships that combine competitiveness, resilience, and value creation intensifies.
It is in this context that this study presents a comprehensive overview of Brazil’s attractiveness for investments and partnerships in the critical and strategic minerals supply chain, with an emphasis on its relationship with the European Union. The publication examines the attractiveness of Brazil’s business environment, the country’s trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) flows, as well as promotional instruments and cooperation frameworks on both sides that can accelerate projects across the production chains—from mining to processing—of the selected minerals.
For the analysis in this study, nine critical and strategic minerals were selected: copper, niobium, silicon, nickel, phosphate, potassium, lithium, graphite, and rare earth elements (REE).
