Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sig…
Instruments and appliances used in medical, surgical, dental or veterinary sciences, including scintigraphic apparatus, other electro-medical apparatus and sight testing instruments
In January–July 2026, Chile exported US$ 12.2 million of this product, less than 0.1% of everything it exported and 38% less than in the same months of 2025. The main destination was the United States (36%), and the main region of origin, Metropolitana (31%). It imported US$ 400 million, 6.3% more than in the same months of 2025, mostly from United States (29%).
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$ 872 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$ 88.1 million and have no line.
Where exports go
- United StatesUS$ 4.4 million36%
- GermanyUS$ 2.1 million17%
- PeruUS$ 907 thousand7.4%
- MexicoUS$ 736 thousand6.0%
- ArgentinaUS$ 698 thousand5.7%
- United Arab EmiratesUS$ 623 thousand5.1%
- PolandUS$ 525 thousand4.3%
- PanamaUS$ 424 thousand3.5%
- NetherlandsUS$ 322 thousand2.6%
- Costa RicaUS$ 268 thousand2.2%
- BrazilUS$ 175 thousand1.4%
- IrelandUS$ 173 thousand1.4%
- OthersUS$ 872 thousand7.1%
Where imports come from
- United StatesUS$ 117 million29%
- ChinaUS$ 76.3 million19%
- GermanyUS$ 46.4 million12%
- Origins or destinations withheld for commercial or military reasonsUS$ 33.2 million8.3%
- JapanUS$ 18.6 million4.7%
- MexicoUS$ 12.5 million3.1%
- FranceUS$ 8.7 million2.2%
- ItalyUS$ 8.4 million2.1%
- South KoreaUS$ 6.9 million1.7%
- BrazilUS$ 6.3 million1.6%
- SwitzerlandUS$ 6.0 million1.5%
- Costa RicaUS$ 4.8 million1.2%
- OthersUS$ 55.0 million14%
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- Nationalised foreign goodsUS$ 7.9 million64%
- MetropolitanaUS$ 3.8 million31%
- No region declaredUS$ 578 thousand4.7%
- MauleUS$ 24 thousand0.2%
- O'HigginsUS$ 6 thousand0.1%
- Los LagosUS$ 60<0.1%
- ValparaísoUS$ 3<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) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aeropuerto A.M. Benitez | Pudahuel | US$ 9.9 million | 81% | US$ 286 million | 71% |
| San Antonio | San Antonio | US$ 1.6 million | 13% | US$ 80.0 million | 20% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 280 | <0.1% | US$ 32.0 million | 8.0% |
| Los Libertadores | Los Andes | US$ 642 thousand | 5.3% | US$ 2.0 million | 0.5% |
| San Vicente | Talcahuano | — | — | US$ 165 thousand | <0.1% |
| Lirquén | Penco | — | — | US$ 90 thousand | <0.1% |
| Coronel | Coronel | — | — | US$ 66 thousand | <0.1% |
| No port declared | — | — | US$ 54 thousand | <0.1% | |
| Chungará | Putre | US$ 17 thousand | 0.1% | — | — |
| Chacalluta | Arica | US$ 287 | <0.1% | — | — |
| Other ports | — | — | US$ 40 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
- AirUS$ 5.9 million48%
- Courier (air)US$ 4.1 million33%
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 1.6 million13%
- RoadUS$ 659 thousand5.4%
Imports, by transport
- AirUS$ 228 million57%
- Sea, river and lakeUS$ 112 million28%
- Courier (air)US$ 58.1 million15%
- RoadUS$ 2.0 million0.5%
- OtherUS$ 4 thousand<0.1%
Who processes it
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % | Imports | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitana | Metropolitana | US$ 9.9 million | 81% | US$ 286 million | 71% |
| San Antonio | Valparaíso | US$ 1.6 million | 13% | US$ 80.0 million | 20% |
| Valparaíso | Valparaíso | US$ 280 | <0.1% | US$ 32.0 million | 8.0% |
| Los Andes | Valparaíso | US$ 642 thousand | 5.3% | US$ 2.0 million | 0.5% |
| Talcahuano | Biobío | — | — | US$ 323 thousand | 0.1% |
| Puerto Montt | Los Lagos | — | — | US$ 69 thousand | <0.1% |
| Iquique | Tarapacá | — | — | US$ 41 thousand | <0.1% |
| Arica | Arica y Parinacota | US$ 17 thousand | 0.1% | — | — |
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | — | — | US$ 16 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 13 subheadings
change against January–July 2025| Code | Description | Exports | change | Imports | change |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 9018.90 | Medical, surgical or dental instruments and appliances; n.e.c. in heading no. 9018 | US$ 9.4 million | −44% | US$ 195 million | +6.7% |
| 9018.39 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; catheters, cannulae and the like | US$ 468 thousand | US$ 92.6 million | +8.0% | |
| 9018.19 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; electro-diagnostic apparatus (including apparatus for functional exploratory examination or for checking physiological parameters), n.e.c. in item no. 9018.1 | US$ 567 thousand | US$ 29.3 million | +23% | |
| 9018.50 | Ophthalmic instruments and appliances | US$ 93 thousand | US$ 20.6 million | +20% | |
| 9018.49 | Dental instruments and appliances; other than dental drill engines | US$ 746 thousand | US$ 15.5 million | +18% | |
| 9018.31 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; syringes, with or without needles | US$ 267 thousand | US$ 14.6 million | +2.7% | |
| 9018.12 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; ultrasonic scanning apparatus | US$ 153 thousand | US$ 12.6 million | −12% | |
| 9018.13 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; magnetic resonance imaging apparatus | US$ 515 thousand | US$ 9.3 million | −25% | |
| 9018.32 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; tubular metal needles and needles for sutures | US$ 16 thousand | US$ 8.6 million | −19% | |
| 9018.20 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; ultra-violet or infra-red ray apparatus | US$ 2 thousand | US$ 1.1 million | −17% | |
| 9018.11 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; electro-cardiographs | US$ 36 thousand | US$ 957 thousand | ||
| 9018.41 | Dental instruments and appliances; dental drill engines, whether or not combined on a single base with other dental equipment | US$ 3 thousand | US$ 190 thousand | ||
| 9018.14 | Medical, surgical instruments and appliances; scintigraphic apparatus | US$ 7 thousand | US$ 33 thousand |
A change is shown only where the same months of the year before added up to at least US$ 1.0 million.
4 of these subheadings have no page of their own (they moved less than US$ 10.0 million); their figures are the ones in this table.
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 →