Peru's CIF imports totaled US$39.714 billion in 2017, a 9.8% increase compared to 2016, the National Customs and Tax Administration (Sunat) reported.
Such growth was mainly underpinned by greater imports of consumer goods,
commodities, and —to a lesser extent— capital goods.
Likewise, Sunat noted CIF
imports —into Peru— amounted to US$3.405 billion last December, up by 9.8% over the same month in 2016.
Consumer goods
Consumer goods imports reached US$9.410 billion in 2017, an 8.6% rise from the previous year.
Purchases of non-durable consumer goods grew 11.7%, thus totaling US$5.200 billion.
Said result was driven by higher demand for food such as milled or semi-milled rice, cane sugar, and fresh apples, among others.
On the other hand, durable consumer goods imports reached US$4.210 billion, a 5% increase if compared to 2016.
Commodities
According to Sunat, commodity imports rose 17.3% between January and December 2017, thus totaling US$18.524 billion.
In this context, higher purchases for the transport (+38%), and
agriculture (+21.3%) sectors were registered.
Origin
It must be noted China and the United States were Peru's major suppliers in 2017 with shipments worth US$8.849 billion and US$8.048 billion, respectively.
Together, they accounted for 42.6% of the total imported value.
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