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Trade between Chile and the United Kingdom

In 2024, Chile exported $671 million to the United Kingdom and imported $592 million. Chile ran a surplus of $78 million with the United Kingdom, compared with a deficit of $147 million in 2019. The United Kingdom was Chile’s 23rd largest trading partner (0.7% of its trade), and Chile was the United Kingdom’s 66th (0.1%).

Summary

Chile → United Kingdom
$671million
United Kingdom → Chile
$592million
Chile’s balance
$78million

Balance

Chile’s trade balance with the United Kingdom

Trade between Chile and the United Kingdom grew 16% since 1995

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

  • Exports 0.7
  • Imports 0.6
  • Balance +0.1

Source: CEPII BACI

Show the numbers
YearExportsImportsTrade balance
1995$825 million$268 million$557 million
1996$867 million$295 million$572 million
1997$943 million$366 million$577 million
1998$915 million$294 million$620 million
1999$854 million$198 million$656 million
2000$1 billion$193 million$841 million
2001$1.1 billion$227 million$921 million
2002$1.1 billion$208 million$850 million
2003$973 million$209 million$763 million
2004$1.2 billion$256 million$972 million
2005$940 million$302 million$638 million
2006$1 billion$329 million$682 million
2007$1.1 billion$425 million$684 million
2008$1 billion$541 million$492 million
2009$884 million$1.1 billion-$197 million
2010$802 million$1 billion-$222 million
2011$881 million$1.4 billion-$496 million
2012$813 million$962 million-$149 million
2013$787 million$1.5 billion-$745 million
2014$813 million$879 million-$66 million
2015$758 million$715 million$43 million
2016$713 million$641 million$73 million
2017$684 million$794 million-$110 million
2018$873 million$902 million-$29 million
2019$729 million$876 million-$147 million
2020$660 million$577 million$83 million
2021$646 million$684 million-$39 million
2022$883 million$643 million$240 million
2023$690 million$585 million$105 million
2024$671 million$592 million$78 million

What they sell each other

What Chile sells to the United Kingdom

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

  1. Wine$217 million · 32.3%
    112 thousand tonnes · Chile’s destinations
  2. 19 thousand tonnes
  3. Grapes$54 million · 8%
    23 thousand tonnes
  4. 13 thousand tonnes
  5. Carbonates$31 million · 4.6%
    3 thousand tonnes
  6. Apples and pears$24 million · 3.6%
    19 thousand tonnes
  7. Coated paper$23 million · 3.4%
    19 thousand tonnes
  8. 6 thousand tonnes
  9. Fish oil and marine fats$16 million · 2.4%
    3 thousand tonnes
  10. Dried fruit and nut mixes$11 million · 1.6%
    4 thousand tonnes

What the United Kingdom sells to Chile

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

  1. Spirits$58 million · 9.7%
    12 thousand tonnes
  2. Turbojets and gas turbines$52 million · 8.7%
    20 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  3. Cars$30 million · 5.1%
    2 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  4. 396 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  5. Pet and animal feed$24 million · 4.1%
    22 thousand tonnes
  6. Bulldozers and excavators$21 million · 3.5%
    1 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  7. Engine parts$19 million · 3.3%
    246 tonnes
  8. Pesticides and herbicides$14 million · 2.4%
    1 thousand tonnes
  9. Tractors$14 million · 2.3%
    1 thousand tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations
  10. Vaccines, blood and antisera$13 million · 2.2%
    704 tonnes · the United Kingdom’s destinations

How it travels

Estimated sea route from San Antonio to Felixstowe.

The estimated sea route between San Antonio and Felixstowe is 7,663 nautical miles (14,191 km) long: ≈ 17.5–23 days at sea (at 18 and 14 knots).

Passages it crosses: Panama Canal and Strait of Dover.

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$1 billion · 80%
  2. Air$252 million · 20%

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

How much each matters to the other

The United Kingdom was Chile’s 23rd largest trading partner (0.7% of its trade), and Chile was the United Kingdom’s 66th (0.1%).

The United Kingdom in Chile’s trade
0.7%
The United Kingdom’s rank among Chile’s partners
23rd
Chile in the United Kingdom’s trade
0.1%
Chile’s rank among the United Kingdom’s partners
66th

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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.