Brazil’s iron ore export revenues are set to surge 60% this year and displace soybeans as the country’s number one source of foreign exchange earnings for the first time in six years, Brazil’s Foreign Trade Association (AEB) said on Tuesday.

The forecast $41.25 billion revenue, together with potential record soybean export volumes, means Brazil is on track to post an overall trade surplus this year of almost $80 billion, AEB Chief Executive Jose Augusto de Castro told Reuters.