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How dependent is the United States on Chile?

In 2024, Chile sold $16.3 billion to the United States, 0.51% of its imports, ranking 27th among its suppliers. Its share was 0.42% in 2019 and 0.29% in 1995. In 4 products it sells more than 50% of what the United States buys of them (in 1, more than 75%); what the United States buys from Chile in those products (dominated value) adds up to $6.5 billion, 0.2% of its imports.

Summary

Share of its imports
0.5%
Value imported
$16.3billion
Rank among its suppliers
27th
Products where it sells over 50%
4
Products where it sells over 75%
1
Dominated value
$6.5billion
Share of total imports
0.2%

Trend

Trend in shares

Chile went from 0.29% to 0.51% of what the United States buys

Share (%)

  • Chile 0.51%

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearValue (USD millions)ShareRank
19952,2070.29%37
19962,5190.31%37
19972,5760.29%38
19982,6270.29%39
19993,1180.3%38
20003,1610.26%42
20013,5760.32%38
20024,0000.34%37
20034,1210.33%43
20045,2710.36%40
20057,1770.43%38
20069,7940.53%34
20079,2650.47%37
20088,6120.41%38
20096,4400.42%35
20107,3960.39%37
20119,4630.43%37
20129,7840.43%36
201310,5100.47%32
20149,6890.42%35
20158,9300.4%32
20169,0240.42%32
201710,6640.46%32
201811,3390.45%32
201910,3680.42%33
202010,5710.46%32
202115,3970.56%26
202215,2540.48%30
202315,4890.52%28
202416,3120.51%27

Products where Chile sells more than half

ProductSupplierShareSecondValue
Refined copperChile69.9%Canada · 16.6%$6 billion
Stone fruit (cherries, peaches, plums)Chile87.4%over 75%Argentina · 5.6%$239 million
Poultry meatChile56.1%Canada · 42%$194 million
Nitrites and nitratesChile62.8%Norway · 8.1%$94 million

A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

Are there other suppliers in the world?

  • Chile sells 18.4% of what the world exports of refined copper; next come Democratic Republic of the Congo (20.6%), Japan (7.7%) and Kazakhstan (4.5%). The rest of the world exported 12.7 times what the United States buys from Chile.
  • Chile sells 39.7% of what the world exports of stone fruit (cherries, peaches, plums); next come Spain (15.1%), Hong Kong (11.5%) and Turkey (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 25 times what the United States buys from Chile.
  • Chile sells 1.1% of what the world exports of poultry meat; next come Brazil (26.3%), Poland (12.7%) and Netherlands (7.5%). The rest of the world exported 154.5 times what the United States buys from Chile.
  • Chile sells 27.1% of what the world exports of nitrites and nitrates; next come China (14.2%), Israel (9.7%) and Jordan (8.1%). The rest of the world exported 11.7 times what the United States buys from Chile.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Seen from Chile

The United States is Chile’s 2nd-largest customer, with 16% of its exports.

Sources and method

Sources and licenses

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.