That dollar amount results from an average 72.2% acceleration for all bronze exporters over the 5-year period starting in 2020 when bronze exports were worth a total $331 million.
Year over year, the value of globally exported bronze expanded by an average 9.8% compared to $518.9 million starting from 2023.
Bronze is an alloy made by combining copper with a smaller amount of tin, plus even smaller quantities of such elements as aluminum, zinc, lead or silver may be mixed in depending on demands of the final usage.
The most popular industrial uses for bronze are as an anti-corrosion additive or for coating iron or steel, a process called galvanization. The metallic brown alloy is used in fittings because it is generally free from corrosion and does not oxidize after exposure with polluted water or chemically treated solutions.
Less brittle than tin or iron but more durable than copper, bronze is also a key ingredient for manufacturing ships, boats, valves and other machine components, coins and sculptures.
Key Geographic Insights about Bronze Exports
By value, the world’s 5 most lucrative bronze exporters are Spain, Japan, Germany, Italy and Indonesia. Collectively, those 5 major suppliers generated approaching two-thirds (62.6%) of the overall dollar spend on exported bronze ores or concentrates during 2024.
Among continents, bronze suppliers located in Europe furnished the highest dollar worth of the brownish-gold metallic alloy during 2024 with shipments valued at $293.2 million or 51.5% of the worldwide total. In second place were bronze exporters in Asia at 32.4%, trailed by suppliers in Latin America excluding Mexico but including the Caribbean at 10.3%, then another 4.2% for providers in North America.
Tinier percentages came from providers in Africa (1%) and Oceania’s (0.7%) New Zealand, Australia and Papua New Guinea.
For research purposes, the 6-digit Harmonized Tariff System code prefix is 740322 for unwrought bronze also called copper-tin base alloys.
Top Bronze Exports by Country
Below are the 25 countries that exported the highest dollar value worth of bronze during 2024.
- Spain: US$96.4 million (16.9% of total bronze exports)
- Japan: $73.4 million (12.9%)
- Germany: $69.3 million (12.2%)
- Italy: $69.2 million (12.1%)
- Indonesia: $48.1 million (8.4%)
- Brazil: $45.4 million (8%)
- South Korea: $30.8 million (5.4%)
- Portugal: $22.7 million (4%)
- United States: $20.6 million (3.6%)
- Taiwan: $13 million (2.3%)
- Netherlands: $7.4 million (1.3%)
- France: $6.7 million (1.2%)
- India: $6.5 million (1.1%)
- United Kingdom: $5.7 million (1%)
- Türkiye: $5.7 million (1%)
- Ecuador: $5.6 million (1%)
- Paraguay: $4.2 million (0.7%)
- New Zealand: $3.8 million (0.7%)
- Canada: $3.2 million (0.6%)
- Saudi Arabia: $2.8 million (0.5%)
- Greece: $2.7 million (0.5%)
- Czech Republic: $2.4 million (0.4%)
- Singapore: $2.1 million (0.4%)
- Belarus: $1.9 million (0.3%)
- Norway: $1.5 million (0.3%)
By value, the listed 25 countries shipped 96.1% of globally exported bronze in 2024.
Among the top exporters, the fastest-growing exporters of bronze since 2023 were: Paraguay (up 715.3%), Saudi Arabia (up 594.9%), Singapore (up 194.3%) and Czech Republic (up 155.3%).
Listed suppliers that posted declines in their international sales of bronze were led by: India (down -54.2% from 2023), United States of America (down -38.3%), United Kingdom (down -30.2%), Germany (down -13.8%) and the Netherlands (down -4.8%).
Countries Generating Greatest Surpluses from Global Bronze Trade
The following countries posted the highest positive net exports for bronze during 2024. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the surplus between the value of each country’s exported bronze and its import purchases for that same commodity.
- Spain: US$92.3 million (net export surplus up 8.1% since 2023)
- Japan: $70.7 million (up 21.5%)
- Brazil: $44.8 million (up 156.1%)
- Indonesia: $41 million (up 52.7%)
- Italy: $37 million (up 11.3%)
- Germany: $34.3 million (up 6.6%)
- South Korea: $30.2 million (up 16.4%)
- Portugal: $10.3 million (down -18.7%)
- Taiwan: $10.2 million (up 14.2%)
- United States: $7.6 million (down -65.1%)
- Ecuador: $5.09 million (up 31.6%)
- India: $5.07 million (down -60.7%)
- Paraguay: $4.2 million (up 716.4%)
- Türkiye: $3.8 million (up 69.6%)
- New Zealand: $3.6 million (up 69.1%)
World-leading bronze supplier Spain earned the highest surplus in the international trade of bronze. In turn, this positive cashflow confirms the strong Peruvian competitive advantage for this specific product category.
Countries Incurring Worst Deficits from Global Bronze Trade
The following countries posted the highest negative net exports for bronze during 2024. Investopedia defines net exports as the value of a country’s total exports minus the value of its total imports. Thus, the statistics below present the deficit between the value of each country’s imported bronze purchases and its exports for that same commodity.
- mainland China: -US$72.3 million (net export deficit down -0.4% since 2021)
- Thailand: -$55.1 million (up 103.5%)
- France: -$20.8 million (up 12%)
- Switzerland: -$17.7 million (up 9.2%)
- Poland: -$13.5 million (up 44.9%)
- Mexico: -$10.9 million (down -47.5%)
- United Kingdom: -$8.1 million (up 53.6%)
- Sweden: -$6.4 million (up 3.6%)
- Australia: -$5.5 million (down -0.1%)
- Malaysia: -$5 million (down -44.4%)
- Philippines: -$4.4 million (down -18.6%)
- Netherlands: -$3.1 million (up 223.2%)
- Belgium: -$3.1 million (down -15.6%)
- Denmark: -$2.9 million (down -32.7%)
- Hungary: -$2.9 million (up 43.2%)
Mainland China recorded the highest deficit in the international trade of bronze. In turn, this negative cashflow highlights China’s competitive disadvantage for this specific product category but also signals opportunities for bronze-supplying countries that help satisfy the powerful Chinese demand.
Major Exporters by Greatest Volume of Bronze Shipments by Weight
The following ranking reveals which counties exported the biggest volumes of bronze during 2024 in terms of shipment tonnage.
By weight, the 15 major suppliers below generated 87.9% of the total 69,905 tons of globally exported bronze in 2024. That volume reflects a 9.1% upturn from 64,103 tons for 2023.
- Spain: 9,282 tons of bronze (13.3% of the world’s total)
- Japan: 8,467 tons (12.1%)
- Germany: 6,908 tons (9.9%)
- Italy: 6,798 tons (9.7%)
- Brazil: 6,475 tons (9.3%)
- Indonesia: 5,491 tons (7.9%)
- South Korea: 3,320 tons (4.7%)
- United States: 3,095 tons (4.4%)
- Paraguay: 2,181 tons (3.1%)
- Portugal: 2,142 tons (3.1%)
- Togo: 1,804 tons (2.6%)
- Angola: 1,681 tons (2.4%)
- Taiwan: 1,595 tons (2.3%)
- Madagascar: 1,166 tons (1.7%)
- Ecuador: 1,010 tons (1.4%)
The world’s foremost seller of exported bronze, the European nation Spain is the leading bronze exporter in terms of both shipment volume and in dollar value.
Fastest growers among the top bronze shippers by weight were Paraguay (up 189.3% from 2023), Togo (up 159.9%), Brazil (up 143.8%), Ecuador (up 27.2%) then Indonesia (up 23.7%).
Recording double-digit declines year over year were sellers in Madagascar (down -38.6% from 2023), Angola (down -32.1%), United States of America (down -30.2%), Germany (down -14.5%) and Taiwan (down -12.8%).
Average Unit Prices for Bronze Exports
The world average unit price for exported bronze was $9,653 per ton, inflating by 9.8% compared to $8,790 per ton for 2023.
Below are the bronze exporters accepting the lowest average unit prices per ton in 2024.
- Papua New Guinea: US$64 per ton (up 1,378% from 2023)
- Botswana: $2,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Zimbabwe: $2,889 per ton (down -86.9%)
- Gambia: $3,750 per ton (down -53.1%)
- Cuba: $3,889 per ton (down -95%)
- Benin: $6,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Sri Lanka: $6,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Madagascar: $6,000 per ton (down -53.8%)
- Latvia: $6,176 per ton (down -14.1%)
- Belgium: $6,454 per ton (down -0.5%)
- Bangladesh: $7,386 per ton (down -17.9%)
- Georgia: $7,400 per ton (up 28.7%)
- Netherlands: $7,688 per ton (up 5.5%)
- New Zealand: $7,720 per ton (up 78.2%)
- Angola: $8,000 per ton (down -79.5%)
The severest decliners in the per-ton price for exported bronze among the above low-cost suppliers were: Cuba (down -95%), Zimbabwe (down -86.9%), Angola (down -79.5%), Madagascar (down -53.8%) and Gambia (down -53.1%).
The following 15 bronze exporters charged the highest average unit prices per ton in 2024.
- Tanzania: US$50,000 per ton (up 81.8% from 2023)
- Brazil: $41,133 per ton (up 93.7%)
- Azerbaijan: $25,455 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Libya: $25,000 per ton (up 275%)
- Iraq: $24,850 per ton (up 123.9%)
- Panama: $24,500 per ton (down -13.1%)
- India: $23,190 per ton (up 10.9%)
- Bahamas: $23,000 per ton (2023 data unavailable)
- Romania: $20,529 per ton (up 9.5%)
- Estonia: $20,500 per ton (down -36.9%)
- Bosnia/Herzegovina: $19,000 per ton (down -10.9%)
- Dominican Republic: $19,000 per ton (up 9.6%)
- Congo: $19,000 per ton (up 171.4%)
- Ukraine: $19,000 per ton (up 18.8%)
- Bahrain: $17,500 per ton (down -8.4%)
The greatest increases in unit prices for imported bronze were enjoyed by sellers in: Libya (up 275% from 2023), Congo (up 171.4%), Iraq (up 123.9%) then Brazil (up 93.7%).
Bronze Sales Companies
Below are 10 sample bronze producers, suppliers or brokers that represent established players engaged in the international trade of bronze. Their home country, either India or the United States of America, for each company’s headquarters is shown within parenthesis.
- Al-Arham Engineering Company (India)
- Alloyed Sustainables (India)
- Amardeep Steel Centre (India)
- AVI International (India)
- Commercial Metal Exchange (United States)
- Emcor Engineering (India)
- Metalmen Sales Inc (United States)
- Multi Metal Corporation (India)
- National Bronze Manufacturing (United States)
- United Engineering Corporation (India)
See also Top Sculptures Exporters by Country, Copper Ore Exports by Country Plus Average Prices, Iron Ore Exports by Country and Top Tin Exporters
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Copper, Brass & Bronze, Bronze listing. Accessed on December 10, 2025
Enggpro, List of Bronze Manufacturers and Suppliers Companies. Accessed on December 10, 2025
Forbes Global 2000 rankings, The World’s Biggest Public Companies. Accessed on December 10, 2025
International Trade Centre, Trade Map. Accessed on December 10, 2025
Investopedia, Net Exports Definition. Accessed on December 10, 2025
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