Although in April Peruvian exports (US$5,373 million 634,000) closed with a rise of 6.7%, the global amount for the first four months of the year (close to US$20,817 million) registered a fall of 2%, which shows the difficult moments that the country experienced in that period as a result of political instability and weather phenomena.
Although April closed in blue, January and February fell by 10.9% and 11.5%, respectively; meanwhile, in March it increased by 8.5%. The president of ADEX, Julio Pérez Alván, indicated that he is confident that the figures to May show the recovery of the sector and that in the medium term the 2-digit growth rates of previous years are recovered.
“This will be possible if we continue to work together with the authorities, if investments are promoted and an environment of stability and predictability is achieved. A few days ago we met with the Minister of Labor, Fernando Valera, since there is a pending agenda in labor matters that must be advanced through social dialogue, ”he said.
Hydrocarbons, fishing and agriculture fell
According to figures from the ADEX Data Trade Commercial Intelligence System, in the accumulated from January to April traditional dispatches (US$14,789 million) contracted 5.2% due to lower shipments of hydrocarbons (-31.2%), fishing (-12.6%) and agriculture (-63.9%). Only mining experienced an increase of 2.6%.
Of the top ten games, five closed in blue (copper and its concentrates, cathodes and sections of refined copper cathodes, molybdenum and its concentrates, lead and its concentrates and gasoline without tetraethylene) and the other five in red (gold, gas natural liquid, zinc and its concentrates, fishmeal and iron and its concentrates).
The main destination market was China after accumulating 48% of the totalfollowed by the US, Japan, Canada, South Korea, Brazil, the United Arab Emirates, Switzerland, India and Spain.
Exports with added value
On the other hand, non-traditional shipments (US$6,028 million) grew 7%. By amount, the most outstanding sectors were agribusiness (US$2,672 million), fishing for direct human consumption (US$801,506,000), chemicals (US$616,536,000) and iron and steel (US$534,200,000).
Others were non-metallic mining (US$442,442,000), clothing (US$404,623,000), metal-mechanics (just over US$226 million), miscellaneous (US$146,921,000), textiles (just under US$146 million), and wood. (US$37 million).
The offer with added value consisted primarily of grapes (positive variation of 22.4%), squid (207.3%), avocado (44%), calcium phosphates (93.6%), mango (0.2% ), blueberries (24.5%), refined copper wire (-19.5%) and canned squid (198.5%).
In addition, its main market was the US, achieving an evolution of 4.3%. Others were the Netherlands (6.2%), China (69%), Chile (-0.15%), Ecuador (-2.8%), Mexico (48.6%) and Spain (23.8%). .
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Within the framework of the activities for its 50th anniversary, on July 4, ADEX will hold the Exporting Dreams conference at the headquarters of the National University of Ucayali. Public sector authorities and businessmen will participate in the panel ‘Foreign Trade Opportunities from the Ucayali region’.
Source: Larepublica
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