Manufacturing and agribusiness in Paraguay manage to export nearly US$4.3 billion this year
So far this year, the productive manufacturing and agribusiness sector managed to export a total of US$4.296 billion, 19%, more than the US$3.615 billion registered in the same period of 2021, reported the Ministry of Industry and Commerce (MIC).
27% of total industrial exports, US$1.157 billion, corresponds to manufacturing goods; while 73%, US$3.139 billion, corresponds to agribusiness goods, refers to the September report issued by the Vice Ministry of Industry.
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MANUFACTURING GOODS
From January to September, the export of manufacturing products has reached US$1.157 million, 26% more than the US$920 million registered in the same period in 2021.
Regarding destinations, 76% had Mercosur countries, where Brazil concentrated 60%, Argentina 14% and Uruguay 2%. Other relevant destinations were the United States, 6%; Chile and Bolivia, 4% each; Germany, India, Canada, Peru and Ecuador, 1% each.
The manufactured products exported until September of this year included: auto parts and clothing with 19% each, followed by aluminum products and their manufactures with 11% each; herbicides and fertilizers with 8%, plastics and their manufactures with 6%, and pharmaceutical products with 4%.
AGRIBUSINESS GOODS
The export of agro-industrial goods in the accumulated from January to September registered an increase of 16%, in relation to the same period of the year 2021. The accumulated export values in 2022 report a total of US$3.139 billion, which represents US$444 million more than that registered at the same time last year, with US$2.695 million.
Among the main agro-industrial goods exported are: meat products and their derivatives, 49%; vegetable and animal oil, 20%; flour, cake and waste, 19%; beverages, 3%; hides, 2%; mix for bakery products, 2%; and sugar, 1%.
The main destination markets for agro-industrial goods were Chile, 19%; Argentina, 13%; Brazil, 11%; Russia, 9%; Taiwan, 6%; Poland, 4%; Israel, 4%; United States, 3%; Uruguay, 2%; UK, 2%; India, 2% and Pakistan, 2%. As a whole, Mercosur concentrates 27% of the total agro-industrial goods exported from January to September of the year 2022.
With information from PortalPortuario
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