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Traditional exports totaled 50,935 million dollars between January and July of this year, which implied a growth of 44% compared to what was recorded in the same month of 2025, Adex reported today.
According to its 'Export Report - July 2026', traditional shipments came to represent 80.2% of the total recorded in the seventh month of the year.
It highlighted that mining was the leading activity with shipments worth 46,283 million dollars, an increase of 49.2% thanks to higher sales of copper and crude gold, which accounted for 64.8% of the demand.
Hidrocarbons (whose shipments grew 28.4%) and agriculture (0.4%) followed.
The main destinations for traditional exports were China (which represented 46.1%), India, Canada, the United States, and Switzerland.
For its part, the value-added supply totaled 12,586 million dollars, experiencing an evolution of 2.5% in relation to the same period in 2025 (12,277 million) and accounting for the remaining 19.8%.
Agribusiness (with shipments worth 6,017 million dollars), chemical (1,536 million), fishing-aquaculture (1,443 million), iron and steel (1,372 million), apparel (669.8 million), non-metallic mining (563.3 million), metalworking (418 million), textile (305.7 million), various (190 million), wood (40.9 million), and jewelry (31 million) stood out.
The most important item was avocado (1,128 million dollars), followed by fresh grapes, frozen squid, blueberries, refined copper wire, other copper sheets, mangoes, natural calcium phosphates, cocoa beans, unalloyed zinc, among others.
Regarding destinations, the United States was the leader (27.9% of the total), followed by the Netherlands (9.4%), China (6.7%), Chile (6.4%), and Spain (5.2%). Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, Brazil, and South Korea completed the top ten.
