, thus increasing 12.2% compared to the figures registered the previous year (US$45.275 billion),
projected Wednesday.
"This country is one of the few in the region that includes questions on e-commerce in its surveys, censuses of economic establishments or interviews with small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs)," it said.
"One-third of Peruvian firms carried out commercial promotion activities through the Internet in 2016. This is the chief means of promoting their products and represents 41% of the amount spent on the main forms of business advertising," ECLAC added.
Latin America and the Caribbean
Likewise, regional imports value will rise in 2018 for the second consecutive year (+9.5%).
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