Peru's total exports to Australia reached US$178.708 million between January and October 2017, the Andean country’s Exports and Tourism Promotion Board (PromPeru) reported Friday.
This result was mainly underpinned by greater sales of traditional products, which totaled US$136.722 million in the first 10 months of 2017.
On the other hand, non-traditional exports amounted to US$41.986 million in the analyzed period, thus accounting for 23.5% of
total sales to Australia.
According to PromPeru, the total value of Peruvian exports to Australia decreased 7.98% from US$194.208 million (Jan-Oct 2016) to US$178.708 million (Jan-Oct 2017).
Traditional exports
Between January and October 2017, zinc shipments to the aforementioned country amounted to US$66.275 million, a 3.31% rise from the same period in 2016 (US$64.152 million).
Likewise, fish oil exports increased 5.7% by climbing from US$11.077 million (Jan-Oct 2016) to US$11.709 million (Jan-Oct 2017).
Non-traditional exports
In the analyzed period, higher shipments from farming (+0.37%), metal-mechanic (+226.13%), and fishery (+233.93%) sectors were also registered.
Thus, farming exports to Australia increased from US$20.828 million (Jan-Oct 2016) to US$20.905 million (Jan-Oct 2017).
Moreover, metal-mechanic sales reached US$5.495 million and fishery shipments totaled US$1.809 million.