increased 23.8% in January 2019, thus reaching the highest rate in the last eight months, National Institute of Statistics and Informatics (INEI) has informed.
According to the Technical Report on Evolution of Exports and Imports,
farming shipments expanded 24.9%.
In this sense, grapes (+33.6%), mangoes and mangosteens (+10.1%), blueberries (+107.4%), and artichokes (+20.5%) stood out.
For its part, the
fishery sector rose 56.5% underpinned by greater transactions of
squid, giant squid, and cuttlefish (+170.8%), whole frozen shrimp (+147.7%), and shrimp tails with shells (+28.4%).
Likewise, the textile (+20.5%) and chemical (+5.4%) sector posted positive results.
The main destinations were China (34.8% of the total), the United States (16.6%), South Korea (5.7%), the Netherlands (3.7%), and Canada (3.5%).
Imports volume
Furthermore, total good imports volume increased 5.3% compared to the same month in 2017. This outcome was driven by greater purchases of raw materials and intermediate products (+7.5%), consumer goods (+3.7%), as well as capital goods and construction materials (+3.1%).