After the 12.7% uptake last year, the first half of 2025 saw a continued growth trend in Brazilian natural stone exports. According to sector statistics processed by Centrorochas, in the first six months of this year the worth of foreign sales of marbles, granites, quartzites and other stones extracted and processed in Brazil increased by 23.5% from the same period in 2024, reaching $US 742.7 million. The amounts exported saw much lower growth, in the first half of the year increasing by only 3.1% (to 1.046 million tons) with an average price for materials sold abroad that therefore rose to $US 710.20/ton, 19.8% more than the price registered in the first six months of 2024.
The biggest increase was in exports of finished and semi-finished products in granite and other siliceous stones – accounting for more than 70% of the Brazilian stone industry’s foreign revenue -, up 26% from the first half of 2024, for $US 524 million. Also extremely good was the trend in sales of blocks of granite and other siliceous materials (+19.8%), to 139.5 million.
It should be emphasized that, at a time anything but positive for the global stone business, the boom in Brazil’s stone exports in the first half of 2025 was driven by a big increase in orders from the United States (+24.6%, for record worth of $US 426 million) prior to enforcement of the new tariffs introduced by the Trump administration, which in the case of Brazilian manufacturers are of 50%, among the world’s highest.
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