Carbonates; lithium carbonate
In the Arancel: Carbonatos; peroxocarbonatos (percarbonatos); carbonato de amonio comercial que contenga carbamato de amonio › Los demás › Carbonatos de litio
In January–July 2026, Chile exported US$ 2,865 million of this product, 3.6% of everything it exported and 172% more than in the same months of 2025. The main destination was China (74%), and the main region of origin, Antofagasta (100%). It imported US$ 23 thousand, mostly from Origins or destinations withheld for commercial or military reasons (56%).
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 tariff line
What is imported, by tariff line
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$ 734 thousand and have no line.
Each line arrives from the country where the goods were made; 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$ 13 thousand and have no line.
Where exports go
- ChinaUS$ 2,130 million74%
- South KoreaUS$ 432 million15%
- JapanUS$ 104 million3.6%
- United StatesUS$ 69.2 million2.4%
- BelgiumUS$ 47.9 million1.7%
- IndonesiaUS$ 35.7 million1.2%
- GermanyUS$ 21.7 million0.8%
- United KingdomUS$ 14.8 million0.5%
- IndiaUS$ 2.9 million0.1%
- TürkiyeUS$ 2.8 million0.1%
- PolandUS$ 2.5 million0.1%
- TaiwanUS$ 658 thousand<0.1%
- OthersUS$ 734 thousand<0.1%
Where imports come from
- Origins or destinations withheld for commercial or military reasonsUS$ 13 thousand56%
- SpainUS$ 6 thousand27%
- United StatesUS$ 3 thousand15%
- SwitzerlandUS$ 3481.5%
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- AntofagastaUS$ 2,865 million100%
- No region declaredUS$ 3 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$ 2,514 million | 88% | — | — |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 156 million | 5.4% | US$ 6 thousand | 27% |
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 108 million | 3.8% | — | — |
| San Vicente | Talcahuano | US$ 64.8 million | 2.3% | — | — |
| Iquique | Iquique | US$ 22.4 million | 0.8% | — | — |
| Aeropuerto A.M. Benitez | Pudahuel | US$ 1 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 14 thousand | 62% |
| San Antonio | San Antonio | — | — | US$ 2 thousand | 11% |
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$ 2,865 million100%
- Courier (air)US$ 1 thousand<0.1%
Imports, by transport
- AirUS$ 14 thousand62%
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 9 thousand38%
Who processes it
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % | Imports | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 2,842 million | 99% | — | — |
| Iquique | Tarapacá | US$ 22.4 million | 0.8% | — | — |
| Metropolitana | Metropolitana | US$ 1 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 14 thousand | 62% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | — | — | US$ 6 thousand | 27% |
| San Antonio | Valparaíso | — | — | US$ 2 thousand | 11% |
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 3 tariff lines
change against January–July 2025| Code | Description | Exports | change | Imports | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2836.9130 | Con un porcentaje de pureza superior o igual a 99,2 % de Li2CO3 y con tamaño de partícula inferior o igual a 37 micrones, expresado como D50 | US$ 2,209 million | +151% | — | |
| 2836.9190 | Carbonatos de litio: los demás | US$ 609 million | +333% | US$ 20 thousand | |
| 2836.9140 | Con un porcentaje de pureza superior o igual a 98,9 % de Li2CO3; de forma física micronizado con un tamaño de partícula superior a 37 micrones, expresado como D50 o de forma física compactado, fino, cristalizado o granulado con un tamaño de partícula inferior a malla 400 | US$ 47.0 million | +44% | US$ 2 thousand |
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.
- Tariff lines
- The 8-digit lines are Chile's own: the Harmonized System stops at the subheading and each country opens its own lines below it. They have no English text, so they are named in the Arancel's Spanish.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How each figure is checked →