Total exports increased 11.2% during 2025

During the year 2025, total volume of FOB export grew 11.2%, compared to the last year, driven by the dynamism of traditional products (11.2%) and foreign sale of non-traditional products (11.0%). This was informed the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) in the technical report Evolution of Exports and Imports.

During the year under analysis, 87.4% of export volume of traditional products, corresponded to mining products such as copper (10.6%) that had China as main country of destination. In addition, the shipments of gold (11.7%), zinc (14.4%) and lead (29.1%) outstood.

During the year 2025, the export volume of non-traditional products increased by 11.0%, due to greater shipments of agribusiness products such as blueberries (9.4%), fresh grapes (18.7%), avocados (9.2%) and raw cacao (4.5%). In addition, it outstood the exports of mussels and frozen scallops (258.4%); refined copper wire (16.2%), non-alloy zinc (8.7%); as well as cotton T-shirts (16.8%).

During the year 2025, the total volume of FOB import grew 14.5% compared to the year 2024, determined by greater acquisitions of capital goods and construction materials (18.2%), shipments of consumption goods (15.7%); followed by raw materials and intermediate products (11.5%).

During 2025, the import volume of consumption goods grew 15.7% compared to the level registered in the year 2024, due to the greater purchases of non-durable consumption goods (14.2%), such as medicinal products for human use (9.7%), other footwear (11.9%), as well as milk and concentrated cream in powder, granulated or solid (10.7%), among the main ones.

Acquisition of durable consumer goods increased by 17.8% due to the greater demand of assembled automobiles (25.8%), plastic manufacturing (33.6%), as well as motorcycles and velocipedes with combustion piston engine (41.0%).

Raw materials and intermediate products increased by 11.5% in the year 2025, compared to the year 2024. In this result influenced the greater domestic demand of raw materials and intermediate products for the industry (16.0%), raw material and intermediate products for agriculture (12.7%) and fuels, lubricants and allied products (1.4%). In that regard, there were reported greater purchases of Diesel B5 (22.1%), hard yellow corn (14.8%), as well as waste and scrap of iron or steel (11.4%) and durum wheat except for sowing (3.5%).

During the year 2025, the import volume of capital goods and construction materials grew by 18.2%, compared to the year 2024. This result was based in the positive performance of the acquisitions of capital goods for the industry (13.4%) and transportation equipment (27.3%). At level of products, it outstood the Smart phone (5.2%), machines for data processing of weight lower or equal to 10 Kg (19.5%) and pick-up trucks assembled (29.5%).

During December of the year 2025, the total volume of exported goods grew 13.4%, compared to the same month of 2024, driven by the shipments of traditional (13.8%) and non-traditional (12.3%) products.

Regarding the shipments of mining traditional products (15.6%), grew the trading volumes of copper (10.6%), that remain as the main products demanded by the foreign market, that in real terms totalized US$ 1,841.6 million, figure equivalent to 58.0% of the total exported of the mining sector. The sales of copper abroad were 18.3% greater to the registered in the same month of the last year and China concentrated the 78.7% of exports of this metal, with an increase of 52.6%. At the same time, also showed a positive behavior: gold (10.2%), lead (40.0%) and zinc (6.4%).

Exports of fishing traditional products grew by 47.4%, influenced by the transactions of fishmeal (29.4%) and fish oil (376.5%). In addition, the agriculture exported volume increased by 86.9%, driven by the dynamism of the coffee sale (99.9%) destined to United States, Belgium and Canada.

During December of 2025, the volume of export of non-traditional products grew 12.3% compared to the same month of the last year, due to the positive evolution of most productive sector greater except for the non-metallic mining (-6.3%).

Volumes exported of the agribusiness sector increased by 11.6%, due to the sale of fresh grapes (20.8%), blueberries (24.1%) and fresh or refrigerated asparagus (2.4%). The dynamism of fishing sector (99.6%), was based in the shipments of canned fish (34.8%), as well as cuttlefishes and squids (2,154.9%).

Among the shipments of chemical products (8.9%), it outstood the commercialization of zinc oxide (46.7%) and sulphuric acid (61.0%), among others. Transactions of the metal-mechanic industry sector showed positive variation of 11.5%, before the shipments of automobiles for the transportation of more than 16 persons (49.5%). Textile shipments (6.7%), outstood due to the demand of cotton T-shirts (2.9%), synthetic fibers or artificial shirts (4.8%) and carded or combed fine animal hair of alpaca or llama (16.0%).

The greater sales of iron and steel sector (5.6%) were driven by the exports of non-alloyed zinc (17.6%), as well as other plates and strips of refined copper of a thickness exceeding 0.15 mm (20.9%). On the other hand, there were reduced the volumes exported of non-metallic mining sector (-6.3%), in response to the lower sale of anthracites (-48.3%) and cylinders (-18.1%).

In the last month of the year 2025, the imports increased by 18.4%, compared to the same month of the last year, due to the greater purchases of capital goods and construction materials (31.1%), raw materials and intermediate products (13.8%), as well as consumption goods (11.5%).

During December of 2025, the volume imported of raw materials and intermediate products was higher by 13.8% at the level reported during December 2024, due to the greater purchases of raw materials and intermediate products for agriculture (36.7%) and industry (12.8%) sector, and fuels, lubricants and allied products (12.0%).

Raw materials and intermediate products for the agriculture that registered greater demand were the preparations for animal feeding (26.7%) and ammonium sulphate (222.2%). In the sector of raw materials and intermediate products for the industry outstood the hard yellow corn (53.6%), polyethylene of high density (1.7%), soybean crude oil (197.7%), laminated products of iron or galvanized steel (27.8%). Among the fuels, lubricants and allied products imported outstood the crude oil (33.2%) and diesel B5 (50.4%).

During December 2025, the import of consumption goods increased by 11.5% compared to the value reached in December of 2024, due to the increase in purchased of non-durable (12.9%) and durable (9.7%) consumption goods.

The purchase of non-durable consumption goods of greater demand were the medicines for human use (5.3%), other footwear (16.7%), milk and concentrated cream in powder, granulated or solid (91.7%), beauty preparations, make-up and skincare (19.3%), as well as footwear with uppers of rubber or plastic (36.5%). Among the durable consumption goods were the assembled automobiles (58.6%), plastics manufacturing (28.6%), as well as motorcycles and velocipedes with piston engine (23.5%) or 4x4 pick-up trucks (11.6%).

During the last month of the year 2025, the import volume of capital goods and construction materials grew by 31.1%, compared to the volume registered in December of 2024, explained by the purchases of goods in its different uses or economic destinations. Therefore, import volumes capital goods for agriculture increased by 98.9%, the acquisitions of transportation equipment grew by 56.9%, purchase from overseas of capital goods for the industry was higher by 23.0% and import materials of construction increased by 16.0%.