Border crossing
Chacalluta
In January–July 2026, US$ 196 million of exports were loaded at Chacalluta — 0.2% of everything Chile exported — and US$ 540 million of imports were unloaded here, 1.0% of the country's. What is loaded most is «Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grin…» (9.6%), and the main destination is Peru (98%).
Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How it is measured
US$ 196 M
exported, January–July 2026 · −6.0% vs January–July 2025
US$ 540 M
imported, January–July 2026 · +7.4% vs January–July 2025
0.2%
of everything Chile exported · 1.0% of imports
154.2 k t
loaded, January–July 2026 · gross weight, exports only
US$ 1.27
per kilo loaded
Month by month
January 2025–August 2026Loaded (exports)Unloaded (imports)shaded: 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 passes through
January–July 2026What is loaded (exports)
Machinery and electricalChemicalsBase metalsVegetable productsPlastics and rubberMineral productsFood, beverages and tobaccoTransport equipmentAnimals and animal productsTextilesMiscellaneous manufacturesPulp and paperPrecision instrumentsFootwear and headgearStone, ceramics and glassWood and corkFats and oilsHides and leatherPearls, stones and precious metalsSpecial treatmentshover a tile for its count
- Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixi…US$ 18.8 million9.6%
- Machinery parts; used solely or principally with the machinery of heading no. 8…US$ 11.7 million6.0%
- Bodies; (including cabs) for the motor vehicles of heading no. 8701 to 8705US$ 8.7 million4.5%
- Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate ce…US$ 7.5 million3.8%
- Pumps; for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring device, liquid elevato…US$ 7.1 million3.7%
- Apples, pears and quinces; freshUS$ 5.7 million2.9%
- Transmission shafts (including cam and crank) and cranks; bearing housings and…US$ 5.7 million2.9%
- Odoriferous substances and mixtures (including alcoholic solutions) with a basi…US$ 5.3 million2.7%
- Safety fuses; detonating cords; percussion or detonating caps; igniters; electr…US$ 5.1 million2.6%
- Fish; fresh or chilled, excluding fish fillets and other fish meat of heading 0…US$ 4.4 million2.2%
- Stranded wire, ropes, cables, plaited bands, slings and the like, of iron or st…US$ 4.4 million2.2%
- Prepared explosives, other than propellent powdersUS$ 4.3 million2.2%
- Every other headingUS$ 107 million55%
What is unloaded (imports)
Mineral productsVegetable productsMachinery and electricalChemicalsTransport equipmentTextilesBase metalsPlastics and rubberFats and oilsFood, beverages and tobaccoPulp and paperMiscellaneous manufacturesFootwear and headgearStone, ceramics and glassPrecision instrumentsHides and leatherWood and corkPearls, stones and precious metalsAnimals and animal productsArt and antiqueshover a tile for its count
- Molybdenum ores and concentratesUS$ 353 million65%
- Dates, figs, pineapples, avocados, guavas, mangoes and mangosteens; fresh or dr…US$ 61.3 million11%
- Machinery for sorting, screening, separating, washing, crushing, grinding, mixi…US$ 16.5 million3.0%
- Vehicles; public transport passenger typeUS$ 8.3 million1.5%
- Portland cement, aluminous cement (ciment fondu), slag cement, supersulphate ce…US$ 8.0 million1.5%
- Citrus fruit; fresh or driedUS$ 6.9 million1.3%
- Safety fuses; detonating cords; percussion or detonating caps; igniters; electr…US$ 6.0 million1.1%
- Moving, grading, levelling, scraping, excavating, tamping, compacting, extracti…US$ 5.6 million1.0%
- Prepared explosives, other than propellent powdersUS$ 5.5 million1.0%
- Pumps; for liquids, whether or not fitted with measuring device, liquid elevato…US$ 4.9 million0.9%
- Vegetables provisionally preserved, but unsuitable in that state for immediate…US$ 4.8 million0.9%
- Quicklime, slaked lime and hydraulic lime; other than calcium oxide and hydroxi…US$ 3.7 million0.7%
- Every other headingUS$ 55.0 million10%
Each rectangle is a chapter of the Arancel; its area is what passed through here, its colour the family of goods. Below, the largest headings. Click one to go to its page, which says through which ports it leaves and lands across Chile.
With which countries
January–July 2026Each line joins the start and a country this was sold to; it is a relationship, not a route.
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$ 351 thousand and have no line.
Where what is loaded goes
Where what is unloaded comes from
- PeruUS$ 521 million97%
- BrazilUS$ 9.0 million1.7%
- ColombiaUS$ 2.7 million0.5%
- United StatesUS$ 2.5 million0.5%
- ChinaUS$ 2.2 million0.4%
- SwedenUS$ 601 thousand0.1%
- ChileUS$ 388 thousand0.1%
- MexicoUS$ 377 thousand0.1%
- Origins or destinations withheld for commercial or military reasonsUS$ 195 thousand<0.1%
- JapanUS$ 134 thousand<0.1%
- BelgiumUS$ 105 thousand<0.1%
- BoliviaUS$ 70 thousand<0.1%
- OthersUS$ 155 thousand<0.1%
From which region
exports · January–July 2026- MetropolitanaUS$ 77.4 million40%
- Nationalised foreign goodsUS$ 55.7 million28%
- AntofagastaUS$ 17.6 million9.0%
- Arica y ParinacotaUS$ 15.3 million7.8%
- O'HigginsUS$ 9.0 million4.6%
- MauleUS$ 5.6 million2.8%
- ValparaísoUS$ 5.3 million2.7%
- AtacamaUS$ 2.7 million1.4%
- TarapacáUS$ 2.6 million1.3%
- CoquimboUS$ 1.6 million0.8%
- BiobíoUS$ 1.3 million0.7%
- Los LagosUS$ 464 thousand0.2%
- Los RíosUS$ 301 thousand0.2%
- AraucaníaUS$ 269 thousand0.1%
- No region declaredUS$ 231 thousand0.1%
- ÑubleUS$ 26 thousand<0.1%
The region the export declaration names as the origin of what was loaded here. A port serves regions other than its own.
Who processes it and how it travels
January–July 2026| Customs office | Region of its seat | Exports | % | Imports | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arica | Arica y Parinacota | US$ 164 million | 84% | US$ 540 million | 100% |
| Metropolitana | Metropolitana | US$ 21.7 million | 11% | — | — |
| Antofagasta | Antofagasta | US$ 6.1 million | 3.1% | — | — |
| Iquique | Tarapacá | US$ 2.4 million | 1.2% | — | — |
| Talcahuano | Biobío | US$ 1.2 million | 0.6% | — | — |
| Tocopilla | Antofagasta | US$ 178 thousand | 0.1% | — | — |
| Los Andes | Valparaíso | — | — | US$ 34 thousand | <0.1% |
The port is where the cargo passes; the office is the one that processed the declaration, and it may be another.
Exports, by transport
- RoadUS$ 196 million100%
Imports, by transport
- RoadUS$ 540 million100%
From where to where
January–July 2026What leaves: region of origin, family of goods, destination
What comes in: origin, family of goods, customs office
Every column adds up to the same total; the largest are named and the rest pooled into «others». An import declares no Chilean region: it is counted at the office that clears it.
Other ports of Arica y Parinacota
January–July 2026| Port or crossing | Comuna | Loaded (exports) | % | Unloaded (imports) | % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arica | Arica | US$ 184 million | 77% | US$ 37.3 million | 62% |
| Chungará | Putre | US$ 51.1 million | 21% | US$ 19.5 million | 33% |
| Aeropuerto Chacalluta | Arica | US$ 4.1 million | 1.7% | US$ 2.8 million | 4.7% |
| Arica-Tacna | Arica | — | — | US$ 147 thousand | 0.2% |
| Visviri | General Lagos | US$ 515 | <0.1% | — | — |
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.
- 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 ports
- The ports, airports and crossings are those of Anexo 51-11 of the Compendio de Normas Aduaneras, with their code (957 is this one's). Aduanas publishes no location: PuroChile places a port in its comuna, not on its quay.
- Tonnage
- Tonnage is the gross weight the export declarations state. The imports database carries no weight, so there is no unloaded tonnage.
- A month at zero
- A month with no bar is one in which nothing was declared through this port; «s/d» is one the database does not carry.
Source: Servicio Nacional de Aduanas · How each figure is checked →