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Peruvian goods trade outpaces growth in Latin America
Yesterday, Peru’s Foreign T
rade and Tourism Minister Claudia Cornejo stated that the international trade of Peruvian goods grew by 14.9% in the first quarter of 2021. This is a higher rate than that achieved by trade in Latin America, which saw a growth of 9.5%.
This performance is the outcome of the increase in national imports (+17.5%) and exports (+12.6%), which jointly reached the figure of US$21.651 billion between January and March. Besides this, Peru s trade balance surplus now stands at US$630 million.
Miss Cornejo affirmed that the resilience of Peruvian companies and the nation s trade policy, which added to the rise in the prices of our main export commodities and the normalization of economic activities favored the foreign trade of goods.