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Colombia’s Non-Mining Exports Grew by 24.7% in Q1 2025
Posted On April 3, 2025
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2025 started with good results for exports of non-mining energy goods in Colombia, according to statistical reports. In January, such exports registered a growth of 24.7% compared to the same month in 2024. In addition, they accounted for half of the total exported by the country this month. In the first month, Colombia sold $1,894.2 million USD in this class of goods to the world and shipped 749,386.4 tons, which also increased by 7.3% compared to the same month in 2024.
One of the objectives of the government’s Foreign Trade Policy is to promote the development and export of products from the industrial, agro-industrial, and agricultural sectors, moving toward a decarbonized, inclusive, sustainable, and knowledge-based economy.
Of the sectors that make up the non-mining sectors, according to the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Tourism (MinCIT) the one that registered the greatest growth in its exports was agriculture, which, although it represents 46.6% of this basket, registered an increase of 43.8% in its foreign sales.
In this segment, products such as beef stood out for their sales abroad, which increased 223.4%; coffee, 108.6%; flowers, 15.4%; and Tahiti lemon, 6.1%, among others. On the side of industrial products, a group that also includes agro-industrial products, exports increased 11.7%, and their participation in this non-mining basket was 53.3%.
Products such as palm oil, with an increase of 35.8%; electrical transformers, 22.9%; beauty preparations, 18.8%; doors, windows and their frames, 15.7%; plastics and their manufactures, 10.3%; refrigerators 8% and chocolates, candies and candies with an increase of 3.2%.
On the other hand, of the 10 main departments that export non-mining energy goods and accounted for 93.5% of those sales in the month, 9 registered growth.
These were: Antioquia, 30.4%; Bogotá, 14.9%; Atlántico, 10.6%; Valle del Cauca, 16.8%; Cundinamarca, 16.5%; Bolívar, 22.3%; Caldas, 109.7%; Huila, 67.8%, and Magdalena, 12.9%.
Photo credit: MinCIT.
