Volume of total export grew 20.5% in March of 2025

The National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) informed that, in March of 2025, the total volume exported of goods grew 20.5%, compared to the same month of 2024. In the technical report Evolution of Exports and Imports is stated that the positive performance is explained by the greater shipments of traditional products (20.2%) and non-traditional products (22.1%).

With regard to the participation in the total value exported in real terms, is informed that the main countries of destination of exports were China with 45.5%, United States of America 10.0% and South Korea with 4.5%.

During the first quarter of 2025, the total volume exported increased by 20.8% compared with the same period of 2024. Likewise, the traditional (20.9%) and non-traditional (20.5%) exports registered positive results.

During the month under analysis, the volume exported of traditional products increased by 20.2%, due to the increase in fishing exports (126.5%), petroleum and natural gas (39.2%) and mining (16.3%).

The volume exported of mining products increased by 16.3%, compared to the level registered in March of 2024, due to the greater sales of minerals, such as copper (14.8%), mineral that remained as main driver of exports. Also registered a positive behavior, the following minerals: gold (49.5%), zinc (1.6%), lead (5.2%) and tin (40.7%).

The shipments of traditional fishing products grew by 126.5% explained by the increase in the volume exported of fish oil (149.6%) and fish meal (124.1%). Likewise, the exports of petroleum and gas increased by 39.2%, due to the greater volume exported of natural gas (72.8%) and derivates of petroleum (20.1%).

On the other hand, the agriculture volume exported decreased 14.4%, mainly by the lower shipments of coffee (-24.4%) to Germany and Belgium.

During March of 2025, the export volume of non-traditional products increased 22.1%, compared to the same month of the last year. In this behavior influenced the positive evolution of six productive sectors.

Therefore, the export volume of the agribusiness sector increased by 29.6%, outstood the greater sales of avocados (7.7%), mangos and mangosteens (112.7%) and fresh grapes (81.1%).

The shipments of the chemical sector increased by 22.0% driven by the transactions of cochineal carmine (200.6%), zinc oxide (15.0%) and colour lakes (73.8%).

The iron and steel sector grew by 20.3%, based in the increase of the exports of unalloyed zinc (21.5%), copper refined wire (49.2%) and other sheets and strips of refined copper of thickness greater than 0.15 mm (91.9%). The shipments of fishing sector registered a variation of 30.8%, due to the greater shipments of frozen mussels and scallops (59.3%), cuttlefishes and squids (261.2%) and preserved fish (8.9%).

The exported volumes of the textile sector increased by 14.7%, due to the increase in the sale of cotton T-shirts (27.3%), cotton knit shirts (46.9%) and synthetic or artificial fibers shirts (18.5%). The greater shipments of metal-mechanic products (28.4%), were due to the consumption of parts of machines to classify, grind, ground, stone or solid mineral (124.9%) and parts of machines and crane equipment, bulldozers and devices to flatten (139.8%).

On the other hand, the exported volume of the non-metallic mining sector registered a negative variation (-12.4%).

During March of 2025, the imports of 2007 in real values increased by 16.0%, compared to the same month of the last year, totalizing nine months of uninterrupted growth. On the other hand, during the first quarter of 2025, the imports grew by 17.4% by comparing with the same period of the last year, due to the greater income of consumption goods (21.0%), capital goods and construction materials (19.9%) and raw material and intermediate products (14.3%).

During the month under analysis, the volume imported of capital goods and construction materials grew by 24.3% compared to the volume registered in March of 2024, driven by the greater purchases of goods in its different uses or economic destinations.

The capital goods for the industry registered a variation of 27.8% in the volumes of import, due to the increase in the acquisitions of Smart phones (1.1%), devices of digital telecommunications or by carrier current (3.4%), machines for data processing of weight lower or equal to 10 Kg. (41.2%), as well as parts of devices for reception, conversion and transmission or regeneration of voice, image or other data (74.2%).

The volume imported of transportation equipment increased 18.6%, at level of products outstood the assembled pick-up trucks (9.6%), pneumatics used in vehicles and machines for construction and mining (62.2%), and diesel vehicles for transportation of more than 20 tons (8.2%). Similar behavior showed the capital goods for the agriculture (68.8%), particularly, crawler tractors (81.9%).

During the third month of this year, the import of consumption goods increased by 21.3% compared to the value reached in March of 2024, due to the increase in the purchases of non-durable (19.2%) and durable (24.6%) consumption goods.

The non-durable consumption goods that stood out the most were the medicines for human use (11.1%), other footwear (12.2%), coats and similar articles of synthetic or artificial fiber (27.0%), and milk and concentrated cream in powder, granulated or solid (51.5). Among the goods of durable consumption were the assembled automobiles (20.9%), televisions (44.5%), motorcycles and velocipede with piston engine (154.4%), as well as the rest of vehicles (8.3%).

During March of 2025, the volume imported of raw material and intermediate products was higher in 9.1% than the level registered during March of 2024. This was explained by the greater purchases of raw materials and intermediate products for the industry (19.7%), outstood the purchases of hard yellow corn (59.7%), polyethylene of high density (36.2%), polypropylene in primary forms (24.7%), and flat rolled products of iron or steel coated with zinc (57.2%).

Raw materials and intermediate products for agriculture did not register any variation regarding to the level imported, among the most demanded products were the preparations for animal feeding (33.3%) and ammonium sulphate (9.5%). On the other hand, the fuels, lubricants and allied products registered a variation of 7.5% associated to the lower demand for petroleum raw oil (-25.0%).