Economy
Foreign trade
In January–July 2026, Chile sold US$ 79,218 million of goods to the world and bought US$ 51,688 million. It sold 26% more than in the same months of 2025 and bought 3.6% more. Its largest buyer is China, which took 34% of exports.
Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · exports to August 2026, imports to July 2026 · How it is measured
US$ 79,218 M
exported, January–July 2026 · +26% vs January–July 2025
US$ 51,688 M
imported, January–July 2026 · +3.6% vs January–July 2025
US$ 27,530 M
exports less imports
What it sells most
- Copper ores and concentrates34%
- Copper; refined and copper alloys, unwrought16%
- Gold (including gold plated with platinum) unwrought or in semi-manufac…4.0%
- Carbonates; peroxocarbonates (percarbonates); commercial ammonium carbo…3.6%
- Copper; unrefined, copper anodes for electrolytic refining3.2%
What it buys most
- Petroleum oils and oils from bituminous minerals, not crude; preparatio…7.8%
- Petroleum oils and oils obtained from bituminous minerals; crude6.9%
- Motor cars and other motor vehicles; principally designed for the trans…4.3%
- Vehicles; for the transport of goods3.7%
- Petroleum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons2.8%
Month by month
January 2025–August 2026ExportsImportsshaded: the months the figures above are read over
Each bar is what was declared that month. «s/d» is a month the Aduanas database does not carry yet, not a month without trade.
What it sells and buys
January–July 2026What it sells (exports)
Pearls, stones and precious metalsSpecial treatmentsFats and oilsReserved for national useArms and ammunitionArt and antiqueshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it
What it buys (imports)
Fats and oilsSpecial treatmentsPearls, stones and precious metalsArms and ammunitionReserved for national useArt and antiqueshover a tile for its count; click a group to open it
Each rectangle is a chapter of the Arancel; its area is what was sold or bought, its colour the family of goods. Click a family to open it; click a chapter to go to its page. Every product →
With which countries
January–July 2026Chile sells160 countries
- ChinaUS$ 27,251 M34%
- United StatesUS$ 13,527 M17%
- JapanUS$ 6,938 M8.8%
- South KoreaUS$ 4,136 M5.2%
- IndiaUS$ 3,778 M4.8%
- BrazilUS$ 3,140 M4.0%
- SwitzerlandUS$ 1,652 M2.1%
- SpainUS$ 1,458 M1.8%
- PeruUS$ 1,437 M1.8%
- GermanyUS$ 1,246 M1.6%
and 150 more on the map
FOB exports, January–July 2026. Each line joins Chile and a country; its width and the country's shade say how much was sold to it. A relationship, not a route.
Chile buys155 countries
- ChinaUS$ 13,366 M26%
- United StatesUS$ 10,204 M20%
- BrazilUS$ 4,690 M9.1%
- ArgentinaUS$ 4,460 M8.6%
- GermanyUS$ 1,718 M3.3%
- PeruUS$ 1,343 M2.6%
- SpainUS$ 1,120 M2.2%
- JapanUS$ 1,057 M2.0%
- ItalyUS$ 974 M1.9%
- MexicoUS$ 898 M1.7%
and 145 more on the map
CIF imports, January–July 2026, by the goods' country of origin. The lines arrive in Chile; they are not routes.
An import's origin is the country where it was made, not where it was bought. Each country leads to its profile: what Chile sells it, who was born there and lives here, and how many Chileans vote from there. Chile and the world →
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- AntofagastaUS$ 33,452 million42%
- MetropolitanaUS$ 8,091 million10%
- AtacamaUS$ 7,385 million9.3%
- ValparaísoUS$ 6,267 million7.9%
- TarapacáUS$ 4,524 million5.7%
- Los LagosUS$ 4,177 million5.3%
- CoquimboUS$ 2,973 million3.8%
- BiobíoUS$ 2,861 million3.6%
- O'HigginsUS$ 2,821 million3.6%
- MauleUS$ 1,988 million2.5%
- Nationalised foreign goodsUS$ 1,226 million1.5%
- MagallanesUS$ 1,019 million1.3%
- ÑubleUS$ 982 million1.2%
- Los RíosUS$ 409 million0.5%
- AraucaníaUS$ 390 million0.5%
- AysénUS$ 283 million0.4%
- Arica y ParinacotaUS$ 199 million0.3%
- No region declaredUS$ 172 million0.2%
The region the declaration names as the origin of the exports; US$ 1,398 million left with no Chilean region and are kept apart. Each region links to the foreign trade of its profile.
Through which ports
January–July 2026| Port or crossing | Comuna | Loaded (exports) | % | Unloaded (imports) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Antonio | San Antonio | US$ 8,739 million | 11% | US$ 18,064 million | 35% |
| Puerto Angamos | Mejillones | US$ 14,998 million | 19% | US$ 2,638 million | 5.1% |
| Aeropuerto A.M. Benitez | Pudahuel | US$ 6,492 million | 8.2% | US$ 7,299 million | 14% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 4,881 million | 6.2% | US$ 4,088 million | 7.9% |
| Caleta Coloso | Antofagasta | US$ 8,441 million | 11% | — | — |
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 4,252 million | 5.4% | US$ 1,018 million | 2.0% |
| Los Libertadores | Los Andes | — | — | US$ 4,129 million | 8.0% |
| Quintero | Quintero | — | — | US$ 3,314 million | 6.4% |
| San Vicente | Talcahuano | US$ 3,142 million | 4.0% | — | — |
| Patache | Iquique | US$ 3,023 million | 3.8% | — | — |
| Ventanas | Puchuncaví | US$ 2,881 million | 3.6% | — | — |
| Terminal Graneles del Norte | Mejillones | US$ 2,573 million | 3.2% | — | — |
| Mejillones | Mejillones | — | — | US$ 1,948 million | 3.8% |
| Talcahuano | Talcahuano | — | — | US$ 1,492 million | 2.9% |
| Paso Buta Mallin | Alto Biobío | — | — | US$ 1,436 million | 2.8% |
North to south, one bar per comuna with ports: above, what was loaded there; below, what was unloaded. The port is where the cargo passes, not the office that processes it. The table names the ten largest each way, with their share of Chile's total. Every port and crossing →
Who processes it and how it travels
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % | Imports | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 33,920 million | 43% | US$ 6,348 million | 12% |
| San Antonio | Valparaíso | US$ 8,588 million | 11% | US$ 18,039 million | 35% |
| Metropolitana | Metropolitana | US$ 7,787 million | 9.8% | US$ 7,497 million | 15% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 7,347 million | 9.3% | US$ 7,654 million | 15% |
| Talcahuano | Biobío | US$ 7,477 million | 9.4% | US$ 5,210 million | 10% |
| Los Andes | Valparaíso | US$ 1,067 million | 1.3% | US$ 4,223 million | 8.2% |
| Iquique | Tarapacá | US$ 3,723 million | 4.7% | US$ 736 million | 1.4% |
| Chañaral | Atacama | US$ 3,438 million | 4.3% | US$ 377 million | 0.7% |
| Coquimbo | Coquimbo | US$ 3,510 million | 4.4% | US$ 63.9 million | 0.1% |
| Punta Arenas | Magallanes | US$ 869 million | 1.1% | US$ 151 million | 0.3% |
| Arica | Arica y Parinacota | US$ 414 million | 0.5% | US$ 599 million | 1.2% |
| Puerto Montt | Los Lagos | US$ 459 million | 0.6% | US$ 502 million | 1.0% |
| Tocopilla | Antofagasta | US$ 396 million | 0.5% | US$ 34 thousand | <0.1% |
| Araucanía | Araucanía | US$ 18.2 million | <0.1% | US$ 208 million | 0.4% |
| Puerto Aysen | Aysén | US$ 149 million | 0.2% | US$ 3 thousand | <0.1% |
| Osorno | Los Lagos | US$ 53.3 million | 0.1% | US$ 77.2 million | 0.1% |
| Coyhaique | Aysén | US$ 76 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 2.1 million | <0.1% |
An import declares no region: it is counted at the office that clears it, and the office in the region of its seat.
Exports, by transport
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 68,838 million87%
- AirUS$ 5,626 million7.1%
- RoadUS$ 2,500 million3.2%
- No transport code (0)US$ 2,166 million2.7%
- Courier (air)US$ 72.6 million0.1%
- Power lineUS$ 9.3 million<0.1%
- OtherUS$ 3.6 million<0.1%
- PipelineUS$ 2.1 million<0.1%
- PostUS$ 100<0.1%
Imports, by transport
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 36,925 million71%
- AirUS$ 6,401 million12%
- RoadUS$ 5,408 million10%
- PipelineUS$ 2,008 million3.9%
- Courier (air)US$ 945 million1.8%
- OtherUS$ 1.1 million<0.1%
- Power lineUS$ 47 thousand<0.1%
- RailUS$ 44 thousand<0.1%
- PostUS$ 23 thousand<0.1%
- No transport code (2)US$ 2 thousand<0.1%
From where to where
January–July 2026What leaves: from the region that produced it, by family of goods, to the continent that buys it
What comes in: from the continent of origin, by family of goods, to the office that clears it
Every column adds up to the same total: the largest are named and the rest pooled into «others». Hover a ribbon to see how much it carries.
The 98 chapters of the Arancel
change against January–July 2025A change is shown only where the same months of the year before added up to at least US$ 1.0 million.
How it is measured
- Where the figures come from
- Every export and import declaration the Servicio Nacional de Aduanas processed since January 2025, added up as Aduanas publishes them in its open databases. Nothing is estimated. They are amounts of trade, not PuroChile indicators, and they are never divided by census figures.
- FOB and CIF
- Exports are valued FOB («free on board»): what the goods are worth loaded on the ship, plane or truck that takes them out of Chile. Imports are valued CIF («cost, insurance and freight»): what they are worth on arrival in Chile, with insurance and freight paid. That is how Aduanas publishes them. So «exports less imports» is not the Central Bank's trade balance, which values imports without insurance or freight.
- Which months
- The figures at the top add up January–July 2026: the months of this year both databases already carry, against the same months of 2025. Aduanas replaces the running year's database every month, so this year's months can still be corrected. «s/d» on a chart is a month the database does not carry — not a month without trade.
- Changes
- A change is shown only where the same months of the year before added up to at least US$ 1.0 million.
- The codes
- Aduanas classifies every good with a code of the Arancel Aduanero, which is the international Harmonized System with two Chilean digits added: 2 digits are the chapter (74, copper), 4 the heading (74.03, refined copper), 6 the subheading (7403.11, cathodes) and 8 Chile's own tariff line. Names are the Arancel's; in English, the Harmonized System 2022's. Chile's Section 0 and its 8-digit lines have no English text and are shown in Spanish.
- Port and customs office
- The port is where the cargo physically passes: loaded for an export, unloaded for an import. The customs office is the branch of the Service that processes the declaration. They are not always the same place: the Aduana de Antofagasta processes what is loaded at Mejillones.
- What is not here
- Customs agents: every declaration names the agent who filed it, but Aduanas's open databases leave that field out, and PuroChile does not estimate it.
- The months with no data
- The exports database runs to August 2026 and the imports one to July 2026. Missing from imports: December 2025, August 2026. Those months are «s/d», never zero; how far this year's months are from Aduanas's own tables is in the checks.
- Region of origin
- The region is the one the export declaration names as the origin of the goods. US$ 1,398 million left with no Chilean region — nationalised foreign goods leaving again, or declarations that named none — and are kept apart, never spread over the sixteen. An import declares no region: it declares the office that clears it.
- Countries
- The destination is the country the export declares; the origin is where an import was made, not where it was bought. Chile's free zones, stores for foreign ships and aircraft and fishing outside national waters have codes of their own in Aduanas's tables and are shown by their names, not as countries.
- Customs offices
- The offices are the seventeen of Anexo 51-1 of the Compendio de Normas Aduaneras, including the Aduana de la Araucanía created in December 2025.
- Section 0
- It is Chile's own and holds the Arancel's special treatments: the exports of services Aduanas records are there.
- What has a page
- Every chapter and heading has a page. A subheading has one if it moved at least US$ 10.0 million in exports and imports over every month the databases cover (1,528 do); the rest appear, with their figures, on their heading's page.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How each figure is checked →