Molybdenum ores and concentrates
In January–July 2026, Chile exported US$ 1,632 million of this product, 2.1% of everything it exported and 21% more than in the same months of 2025. The main destination was Japan (20%), and the main region of origin, Antofagasta (56%). It imported US$ 705 million, 40% more than in the same months of 2025, mostly from Peru (69%).
Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How it is measured
Month by month
January 2025–August 2026«s/d» is a month the Aduanas database does not carry, not a month without trade.
What is inside
January–July 2026What is exported, by subheading
What is imported, by subheading
With which countries
January–July 2026Each line joins the start and a country this was sold to; it is a relationship, not a route. The other countries, pooled, and the codes that are not a country (free zones, ship stores) add up to US$ 9.2 million and have no line.
Each line arrives from the country where the goods were made; it is a relationship, not a route.
Where exports go
- JapanUS$ 331 million20%
- South KoreaUS$ 311 million19%
- ChinaUS$ 248 million15%
- BelgiumUS$ 184 million11%
- BrazilUS$ 167 million10%
- IndiaUS$ 123 million7.5%
- NetherlandsUS$ 93.9 million5.8%
- United StatesUS$ 89.9 million5.5%
- ThailandUS$ 32.3 million2.0%
- VietnamUS$ 21.4 million1.3%
- United KingdomUS$ 16.2 million1.0%
- MexicoUS$ 6.0 million0.4%
- OthersUS$ 9.2 million0.6%
Where imports come from
- PeruUS$ 488 million69%
- United StatesUS$ 149 million21%
- ArmeniaUS$ 40.0 million5.7%
- KazakhstanUS$ 16.3 million2.3%
- AustraliaUS$ 6.9 million1.0%
- MexicoUS$ 2.4 million0.3%
- ChinaUS$ 1.9 million0.3%
- ChileUS$ 1.4 million0.2%
- GermanyUS$ 500<0.1%
- BelgiumUS$ 426<0.1%
- VietnamUS$ 34<0.1%
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- AntofagastaUS$ 907 million56%
- MetropolitanaUS$ 519 million32%
- ValparaísoUS$ 106 million6.5%
- TarapacáUS$ 92.8 million5.7%
- CoquimboUS$ 7.3 million0.4%
- No region declaredUS$ 8 thousand<0.1%
The region the declaration names as the origin of the exports. An import declares no region.
Where it leaves and lands
January–July 2026| Port or crossing | Comuna | Loaded (exports) | % | Unloaded (imports) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Puerto Angamos | Mejillones | US$ 797 million | 49% | US$ 268 million | 38% |
| San Antonio | San Antonio | US$ 395 million | 24% | US$ 44.7 million | 6.3% |
| Chacalluta | Arica | — | — | US$ 353 million | 50% |
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 217 million | 13% | US$ 27.1 million | 3.9% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 87.5 million | 5.4% | US$ 12.3 million | 1.7% |
| Iquique | Iquique | US$ 92.8 million | 5.7% | — | — |
| San Vicente | Talcahuano | US$ 38.9 million | 2.4% | — | — |
| Pino Hachado (Liucura) | Lonquimay | US$ 3.0 million | 0.2% | — | — |
| Paso Jama | San Pedro de Atacama | US$ 991 thousand | 0.1% | — | — |
| Aeropuerto A.M. Benitez | Pudahuel | — | — | US$ 6 thousand | <0.1% |
| Other ports | US$ 8 thousand | <0.1% | — | — |
The Chilean port where the exports were loaded and the imports unloaded: where the cargo passes, which is not always the office that processes it. The eight largest are named; the rest are in «other ports». Every port →
Exports, by transport
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 1,624 million100%
- RoadUS$ 8.0 million0.5%
- AirUS$ 6 thousand<0.1%
- Courier (air)US$ 2 thousand<0.1%
Imports, by transport
- RoadUS$ 353 million50%
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 352 million50%
- Courier (air)US$ 6 thousand<0.1%
Who processes it
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % | Imports | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 1,138 million | 70% | US$ 295 million | 42% |
| San Antonio | Valparaíso | US$ 395 million | 24% | US$ 44.7 million | 6.3% |
| Arica | Arica y Parinacota | — | — | US$ 353 million | 50% |
| Iquique | Tarapacá | US$ 92.8 million | 5.7% | — | — |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 2.9 million | 0.2% | US$ 12.3 million | 1.7% |
| Araucanía | Araucanía | US$ 3.0 million | 0.2% | — | — |
| Metropolitana | Metropolitana | US$ 8 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 6 thousand | <0.1% |
The office is the branch of the Service that processed the declaration. An import is counted at the office that clears it.
From where to where
January–July 2026What leaves: region of origin, customs office, destination
What comes in: origin, transport, customs office
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.
Its 2 subheadings
change against January–July 2025| Code | Description | Exports | change | Imports | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2613.90 | Molybdenum ores and concentrates; other than roasted | US$ 567 million | +22% | US$ 705 million | +40% |
| 2613.10 | Molybdenum ores and concentrates; roasted | US$ 1,065 million | +20% | US$ 432 |
A 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.
- A month at zero
- A month with no bar is one in which nothing was declared under this code; «s/d» is one the database does not carry.
- What has a page
- A subheading has a page of its own if it moved at least US$ 10.0 million in exports and imports over every month the databases cover; the rest are, with their figures, in this page's table.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How each figure is checked →