Argentina Trade Balance 2013

by Eduardo Petazze
The INDEC of Argentina has issued foreign trade balance for December 2013 (pdf, 21 pages)
In 2013 the surplus of foreign trade in goods suffer a fall of around 27.3%
December
Calendar Year
Millions of dollars
2012 2013 Change 2011
2012
2013
Change
Trade balance
835
271 -67.5% 9,732 12,418
9,023 -27.3%
Fuels
-13
-261 1,907.7% -3,115 -2,384
-6,163 158.5%
Non-fuels
848
532 -37.3% 12,846 14,802 15,186
2.6%
Exports (FOB)
6,295 5,447 -13.5% 84,051 80,927 83,026
2.6%
Primary Products
1,295
694 -46.4% 20,263 19,050 19,302
1.3%
Manufactures of agricultural origin
1,970 2,207
12.0% 28,204 27,474 30,059
9.4%
Manufactures of industrial origin
2,470 2,249
-8.9% 28,903 27,520 28,413
3.2%
Fuel and energy
560
297 -47.0% 6,682 6,883
5,252 -23.7%
Imports (CIF)
5,460 5,176
-5.2% 74,319 68,509 74,003
8.0%
Capital goods
1,127 1,108
-1.7% 13,969 11,810 12,767
8.1%
Intermediate goods
1,505 1,439
-4.4% 21,793 19,994 19,573
-2.1%
Fuels
573
558
-2.6% 9,796 9,267
11,415
23.2%
Parts for Capital goods
1,047
914 -12.7% 14,919 14,461 15,419
6.6%
Consumption goods
630
531 -15.7% 8,040 7,292
7,508
3.0%
Vehicles and passenger automobiles
564
604
7.1% 5,592 5,384
7,096
31.8%
Other
14
22
57.1%
209
301
225 -25.2%
last data
Also see: Argentina Current Account 2013