Sector shipments metallurgical with an increase greater than 84% and the textiles with 72% are the items that performed best between January and October 2021 In relation to a similar period last year, Francisco Ruiz, general director of Foreign Trade Facilitation of the Mincetur, mentioned.
“Our sector has been quite resilient, exports are above 38% of the previous average, in the case of imports they have also had a favorable performance,” Ruiz said during his participation in the Multisectoral Commission for Foreign Trade Facilitation.
In that sense, he explained that between January and October the agricultural sector achieved shipments for US $ 6,816 million, 17.8% more than in 2020; chemical US $ 1,624 million (+ 29.7%), while fishing reached US $ 1,373 million (+ 42.2%), textile US $ 1,373 million (+ 72%) and metallurgical US $ 959 million (+ 84.2%).
Leader in the region
For his part, the Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism, Roberto Sánchez, commented that the good result in exports is due to the improvement in international prices and the recovery of world economic activity.
The official explained that These growth rates are higher than the Latin American average.
In addition, he highlighted that during this year record levels were reached in traditional and non-traditional exports. In this way, he emphasized that until the end of the year, traditional shipments will exceed S / 40,000 million and non-traditional ones will be S / 16,000 million.
Finally, he indicated that 20 regions registered growth in their shipments abroad.
“The southern regions grew 46%, the central regions over 36% and the northern regions also grew,” he concluded.
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