Total volume exported of traditional products increased 30.9 % in January of 2025

In January of 2025, the total volume exported of goods grew by 30.9% compared to January of 2024, due to the greater shipments of traditional products (34.8%) and non-traditional products (23.2%). This was informed by the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) in the technical report Evolution of Exports and Imports.

In addition, it was informed that the main countries of destination of our exports were China with 42.6%, United States of America with 15.7% and South Korea with 4.4%, of the total value exported in real terms.

During the month under analysis, the real value of traditional exports increased 34.8%, compared to the same month of the last year, due to the dynamism of the mining (39.6%) and fishing (113.1%). activity.

Among the most prominent products were: copper (45.0%), gold (50.7%), lead (29.1%), zinc (16.1%), molybdenum (79.1%) and tin (15.8%). Likewise, the shipments of fishmeal (118.5%) and fish oil (26.4%) increased.

In January of 2025, the export of non-traditional products grew by 23.2% compared to the same month of the last year. Then, the result of the four sectors that contributed to this positive result, were:

The volumes exported of the agricultural sector increased by 29.4%, explained by the greater sale of fresh grapes (61.6%), mangos and mangosteens (47.1%), raw cacao (113.5%) and cocoa butter (172.9%).

The greater demand of products of the metal-mechanic sector (137.0%) was based in the sales of well-drilling machinery (865.5%), parts of machines to classify, grind, earth, stone or solid mineral (97.0 %), as well as parts of machines and crane devices, dozers and devices for terrain modeling (157.6 %), among the main ones.

The volumes exported of the chemical sector increased by 23.5%, due to the increase in the sales of zinc oxide (21.1%), undenatured ethyl alcohol (264.9%) and plates, sheets, film, foil and strip, of polymers of ethylene (17.8%). Likewise, the textile sector grew 19.6% explained by the greater transactions of cotton T-shirts (49.8%), shirts of knitted cotton (4.2%) and knitted cotton fabric (49.2%).

Simultaneously, the exports of iron and steel industries sector grew by 6.9 % due to the greater shipments of refined copper wire (8.2%), as well as sheets and strips of refined copper of thickness higher than: 0.15 mm (93.9%).

The INEI informed that the total volume imported grew by 25.6%, in January of 2025, due to the purchase of capital goods and construction materials (27.2%), raw materials and intermediate products (26.7%) and consumer durables (21.2%).

During the month under analysis, the volume imported of capital goods and construction materials registered a growth of 27.2 %, as a result of the greater purchases in all the sectors: equipment of transportation (32.5%), construction materials (23.0%), capital goods for the industry (24.4%) and agriculture (154.3%).

Among the transportation equipment, it outstood the volume imported of the pick-up trucks assembled (105.5 %), trucks for cargo transport (24.6%), diesel vehicles for transportation for weight exceeding 20 tons (49.9%) and radial car tires for autobuses and trucks (57.2%).

Likewise, it registered a positive performance, the import of construction materials due to the greater consumption of ceramic bricks and tiles (12.7%) and non-alloy iron or steel bar with indentations or ribs (14.6%).

In addition, the import of capital goods for the industry increased due to the greater acquisition of digital telecommunication devices or by carrier current (90.9%), machines for data processing of lower or equal to 10 kilos (43.3%), machines which super-structure could rotate 360° (75.4%), parts of devices for reception, conversion and transmission or voice, image or other data regeneration (25.0%), among others. It also increases the purchase of capital goods for agriculture, outstanding the crawler tractors (62.1%).

During the first month of 2025, the volume imported of raw material and intermediate products increased by 26.7 %, compared to the same month of the last year, being the raw materials and intermediate products for the industry (18.8%) those that most influenced in the result. Among the main products were the waste and scrap of iron and steel (53.2%), hard yellow corn (17.3%), polypropylene in primary forms (92.5 %) and high-density polyethylene (34.4%).

The same behavior showed the imports of raw materials and intermediate products for agriculture, outstanding the oilcakes and solid waste of the extraction of soybean oil (82.3%), ammonium sulphate (147.4%) and diammonium hydrogenorthophosphate (133.7%). Followed by the fuel, lubricants and allied products sector such as petroleum crude oil (40.2 %), diesel B5 (38.7%) and diesel B2 (73.6%).

During the month under analysis, the import of consumer goods increased by 21.2 % interannual, explained by the increase in the purchase volumes of consumer durable goods (25.0%) and non-durable consumer goods (18.6%).

The most requested consumer durable goods were the assembled automobiles (3.0%), televisions (47.9%), motorcycles and velocipedes with piston engine (59.9%), plastic manufacturing (41.3%) and the rest of vehicles (41.4%). Among the non-durable consumer goods outstood: milk and powder, granulated or solid concentrated cream (76.6 %), other footwear (4.5 %), tinned fish (202.4%), beauty, make-up and skin care preparations (37.6%).