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Trade between Chile and Spain

In 2024, Chile exported $1.8 billion to Spain and imported $1.9 billion. Chile ran a deficit of $66 million with Spain, compared with a deficit of $350 million in 2019. Spain was Chile’s 9th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Chile was Spain’s 36th (0.4%).

Summary

Chile → Spain
$1.8billion
Spain → Chile
$1.9billion
Chile’s balance
-$66million

Balance

Chile’s trade balance with Spain

Trade between Chile and Spain grew 4.2-fold since 1995

USD billions (current). Chile’s exports and imports; bars: its balance (green surplus, red deficit).

  • Exports 1.8
  • Imports 1.9
  • Balance -0.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$382 million$505 million-$123 million
1996$328 million$574 million-$246 million
1997$366 million$675 million-$310 million
1998$372 million$684 million-$313 million
1999$355 million$436 million-$82 million
2000$447 million$471 million-$23 million
2001$403 million$504 million-$102 million
2002$440 million$452 million-$12 million
2003$590 million$606 million-$16 million
2004$860 million$556 million$304 million
2005$1.1 billion$653 million$457 million
2006$1.5 billion$749 million$773 million
2007$1.4 billion$922 million$486 million
2008$1.8 billion$956 million$877 million
2009$1.3 billion$1.1 billion$199 million
2010$1.5 billion$1 billion$466 million
2011$1.9 billion$1.2 billion$721 million
2012$1.9 billion$1.4 billion$500 million
2013$1.8 billion$1.7 billion$73 million
2014$1.8 billion$1.5 billion$323 million
2015$1.5 billion$1.5 billion-$69 million
2016$1.5 billion$1.6 billion-$88 million
2017$1.9 billion$1.5 billion$442 million
2018$1.9 billion$1.7 billion$225 million
2019$1.4 billion$1.7 billion-$350 million
2020$1.2 billion$1.4 billion-$266 million
2021$1.5 billion$2.1 billion-$604 million
2022$1.6 billion$2 billion-$453 million
2023$1.3 billion$1.9 billion-$548 million
2024$1.8 billion$1.9 billion-$66 million

What they sell each other

What Chile sells to Spain

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Copper ore$494 million · 27.2%
    105 thousand tonnes · Chile’s destinations
  2. Refined copper$353 million · 19.4%
    42 thousand tonnes · Chile’s destinations
  3. Unrefined copper$113 million · 6.2%
    11 thousand tonnes
  4. Prepared shellfish$95 million · 5.2%
    26 thousand tonnes
  5. 29 thousand tonnes
  6. Nitrites and nitrates$80 million · 4.4%
    81 thousand tonnes
  7. Fish fillets$57 million · 3.1%
    7 thousand tonnes
  8. 17 thousand tonnes
  9. 10 thousand tonnes
  10. Frozen fish$43 million · 2.4%
    9 thousand tonnes

What Spain sells to Chile

The top 10 headings in 2024, with their share of the total.

  1. Cars$114 million · 6%
    9 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  2. Cables and wire$97 million · 5.1%
    12 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  3. Generating sets$85 million · 4.5%
    8 thousand tonnes
  4. Trucks$80 million · 4.2%
    7 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  5. Perfumes$73 million · 3.9%
    2 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  6. 139 tonnes
  7. 1 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  8. Makeup and skin care$41 million · 2.2%
    1 thousand tonnes · Spain’s destinations
  9. Pet and animal feed$38 million · 2%
    15 thousand tonnes
  10. Centrifuges and filters$31 million · 1.7%
    3 thousand tonnes

How it travels

Estimated sea route from San Antonio to Valencia.

The estimated sea route between San Antonio and Valencia is 7,677 nautical miles (14,218 km) long: ≈ 18–23 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Panama Canal and Strait of Gibraltar.

Sailing estimate without port calls, waiting or transshipment; not a schedule. One main reference port per country: in large countries it does not represent all of its ports.

Split by transport mode

  1. Sea$3.4 billion · 92.3%
  2. Air$285 million · 7.7%

Mode estimated from value per kilo and geography; both directions together.

How much each matters to the other

Spain was Chile’s 9th largest trading partner (2% of its trade), and Chile was Spain’s 36th (0.4%).

Spain in Chile’s trade
2%
Spain’s rank among Chile’s partners
9th
Chile in Spain’s trade
0.4%
Chile’s rank among Spain’s partners
36th

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Sources and methodology

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Methodology

Goods trade from CEPII BACI (BACI_HS92_V202601), in current US dollars, with exports and imports reconciled between countries. The transport mode is our own estimate based on value per kilo and geography. The sea route comes from our own network derived from World Bank shipping density (not from nautical charts), between one main reference port per country (World Port Index); days are the distance at 14 and 18 knots, without port calls or waiting. Data up to 2024.