Copper remains Chile's largest commodity export (28%), and the country has the highest percentage of the world export market of that mineral (16%). Other significant exports include wood pulp and waste paper (6.1%), fruit and nuts (6.5%), and fish (6.5%). Chile claims 7.2% of the world's wood chip exports.
In 2000 Chile's imports were distributed among the following categories:
Consumer goods | 15.1% |
Food | 5.5% |
Fuels | 18.0% |
Industrial supplies | 25.6% |
Machinery | 23.3% |
Transportation | 11.5% |
Other | 1.0% |
Principal trading partners in 2000 (in millions of US dollars) were as follows:
COUNTRY | EXPORTS | IMPORTS | BALANCE |
United States | 3,008 | 3,273 | -265 |
Japan | 2,547 | 702 | 1,844 |
United Kingdom | 1,065 | 176 | 889 |
Brazil | 969 | 1,330 | -361 |
China (inc. Hong Kong) | 902 | 950 | -48 |
Italy | 823 | 418 | 405 |
Mexico | 816 | 615 | 201 |
Korea | 809 | 535 | 274 |
Argentina | 639 | 2,866 | -2,227 |
France | 632 | 442 | 190 |
Germany | 459 | 600 | -141 |