Heading 73.26 · Base metals
Iron or steel; articles, n.e.c. in chapter 73
In January–July 2026, Chile exported US$ 104 million of this product, 0.1% of everything it exported and 30% more than in the same months of 2025. The main destination was Mexico (27%), and the main region of origin, Biobío (68%). It imported US$ 237 million, 16% less than in the same months of 2025, mostly from China (78%).
Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How it is measured
US$ 104 M
exported, January–July 2026 · +30% vs January–July 2025
US$ 237 M
imported, January–July 2026 · −16% vs January–July 2025
0.1%
of everything Chile exported · 0.5% of imports
Month by month
January 2025–August 2026ExportsImportsshaded: the months the figures above are read over
«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$ 7.9 million 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$ 16.6 million and have no line.
Where exports go
- MexicoUS$ 28.3 million27%
- BrazilUS$ 21.5 million21%
- EcuadorUS$ 11.8 million11%
- BoliviaUS$ 8.7 million8.4%
- PeruUS$ 4.7 million4.5%
- ArgentinaUS$ 4.6 million4.5%
- EgyptUS$ 3.8 million3.7%
- Dominican RepublicUS$ 3.5 million3.4%
- Côte d’IvoireUS$ 3.1 million3.0%
- Costa RicaUS$ 2.4 million2.3%
- United StatesUS$ 2.0 million1.9%
- SpainUS$ 1.4 million1.4%
- OthersUS$ 7.9 million7.6%
Where imports come from
- ChinaUS$ 185 million78%
- United StatesUS$ 13.4 million5.6%
- GermanyUS$ 4.3 million1.8%
- BrazilUS$ 3.4 million1.4%
- SpainUS$ 3.3 million1.4%
- CzechiaUS$ 2.2 million0.9%
- ItalyUS$ 2.1 million0.9%
- TaiwanUS$ 2.0 million0.9%
- Origins or destinations withheld for commercial or military reasonsUS$ 1.8 million0.8%
- PeruUS$ 1.8 million0.8%
- DenmarkUS$ 1.8 million0.8%
- SwedenUS$ 1.6 million0.7%
- OthersUS$ 14.8 million6.3%
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- BiobíoUS$ 70.8 million68%
- MetropolitanaUS$ 13.5 million13%
- Nationalised foreign goodsUS$ 13.1 million13%
- AtacamaUS$ 2.4 million2.3%
- AntofagastaUS$ 2.0 million1.9%
- TarapacáUS$ 899 thousand0.9%
- ValparaísoUS$ 576 thousand0.6%
- AraucaníaUS$ 210 thousand0.2%
- No region declaredUS$ 146 thousand0.1%
- O'HigginsUS$ 98 thousand0.1%
- MauleUS$ 18 thousand<0.1%
- AysénUS$ 15 thousand<0.1%
- Los LagosUS$ 10 thousand<0.1%
- Arica y ParinacotaUS$ 36<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) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 9.5 million | 9.2% | US$ 93.4 million | 39% |
| San Antonio | San Antonio | US$ 14.9 million | 14% | US$ 60.0 million | 25% |
| Coronel | Coronel | US$ 37.0 million | 36% | — | — |
| San Vicente | Talcahuano | US$ 22.5 million | 22% | — | — |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | — | — | US$ 19.9 million | 8.4% |
| Aeropuerto A.M. Benitez | Pudahuel | — | — | US$ 19.0 million | 8.0% |
| Puerto Angamos | Mejillones | — | — | US$ 15.1 million | 6.4% |
| Iquique | Iquique | — | — | US$ 13.5 million | 5.7% |
| Ollague | Ollagüe | US$ 7.3 million | 7.0% | — | — |
| Chacalluta | Arica | US$ 3.0 million | 2.9% | US$ 2.8 million | 1.2% |
| Los Libertadores | Los Andes | US$ 5.2 million | 5.0% | — | — |
| Lirquén | Penco | — | — | US$ 4.7 million | 2.0% |
| Chungará | Putre | US$ 1.4 million | 1.3% | — | — |
| Other ports | US$ 2.9 million | 2.8% | US$ 8.8 million | 3.7% |
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$ 85.2 million82%
- RoadUS$ 17.8 million17%
- AirUS$ 556 thousand0.5%
- Courier (air)US$ 198 thousand0.2%
- OtherUS$ 4<0.1%
Imports, by transport
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 209 million88%
- AirUS$ 18.1 million7.6%
- RoadUS$ 7.3 million3.1%
- Courier (air)US$ 3.2 million1.3%
- PostUS$ 833<0.1%
Who processes it
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % | Imports | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 18.4 million | 18% | US$ 111 million | 47% |
| San Antonio | Valparaíso | US$ 14.9 million | 14% | US$ 59.9 million | 25% |
| Talcahuano | Biobío | US$ 59.5 million | 57% | US$ 6.9 million | 2.9% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 262 thousand | 0.3% | US$ 19.9 million | 8.4% |
| Metropolitana | Metropolitana | US$ 812 thousand | 0.8% | US$ 19.0 million | 8.0% |
| Iquique | Tarapacá | US$ 355 thousand | 0.3% | US$ 13.5 million | 5.7% |
| Los Andes | Valparaíso | US$ 5.2 million | 5.0% | US$ 2.8 million | 1.2% |
| Arica | Arica y Parinacota | US$ 4.0 million | 3.9% | US$ 2.9 million | 1.2% |
| Osorno | Los Lagos | US$ 122 thousand | 0.1% | US$ 722 thousand | 0.3% |
| Puerto Montt | Los Lagos | US$ 4 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 272 thousand | 0.1% |
| Punta Arenas | Magallanes | US$ 3 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 46 thousand | <0.1% |
| Puerto Aysen | Aysén | US$ 42 thousand | <0.1% | — | — |
| Araucanía | Araucanía | US$ 16 thousand | <0.1% | US$ 4 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 4 subheadings
change against January–July 2025| Code | Description | Exports | change | Imports | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 7326.11 | Iron or steel; grinding balls and similar articles for mills, forged or stamped, but not further worked | US$ 89.0 million | +50% | US$ 142 million | −27% |
| 7326.90 | Iron or steel; articles n.e.c. in heading 7326 | US$ 14.5 million | −21% | US$ 85.6 million | +9.8% |
| 7326.20 | Iron or steel; wire articles | US$ 118 thousand | US$ 6.9 million | +16% | |
| 7326.19 | Iron or steel; articles n.e.c. in item no. 7326.11, forged or stamped, but not further worked | US$ 119 thousand | −93% | US$ 2.9 million | −26% |
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 →