Despite the recession, the import of toys and video games has had a significant increase at the end of the year. Most of them, of course, Chinese.
The Lima Chamber of Commerce (CCL) estimates that, between August and October 2023, around 108 million toys were imported for a value of US$57 million, amounts that represented an increase of 88.6% in quantity and 6.2% in value compared to the same period of 2022.
China stood out as the main supplier country with 91.9% share of the total value, followed by Vietnam (3.4%) and Mexico (2.5%).
The import of toys with wheels (cars, tractors and trains, among others) decreased by 3.2% in terms of units, and by 9.4% in amount. Even though the average unit price was reduced by 6.4%, the imported quantity did not increase.
Meanwhile, the value of imports of the sets of toys (houses, kitchen sets, doctor’s sets, soldiers’ sets, etc.) decreased 5.1%, while the imported quantity increased by 27.6%.
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Consoles also registered an increase in said period: a total of 24,539 consoles were imported for US$7 million, an increase of 1.3% in terms of units and 115.6% in terms of value. China, again, was the main supplier country, with 21,847 consoles for a value of around US$6 million.
The most popular brands were Sony, Nintendo and XBOX. Within these, Sony had a 71.7% share of the total value of total imports. Within Sony consoles, between last August and October, 10,982 units (+1,192%) of Play Station 5 were imported for US$5 million (+1,424%).
Source: Larepublica
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