South Korea exports to Peru

페루 · latest month: October 2026

Exports, October 2026

$59.1M

-25.2% vs previous month

vs same month a year earlier

+40.5%

export value

Exports, last 12 months

$729.9M

+16.2% vs 12 months before

Rank among destinations

of 239, last 12 months

Imports, last 12 months

$3.07B

balance -$2.34B

In October 2026, South Korea exported $59.1 million of goods to Peru, down 25.2% from September 2026 and up 40.5% from October 2025.

Over the 12 months to October 2026, exports of goods to Peru totalled $729.9 million, up 16.2% from the 12 months before ($628.2 million).

Peru ranked 61st of 239 destinations for Korean goods over the 12 months to October 2026, the same position as in the 12 months before.

The largest chapter was vehicles, parts and accessories (HS 87), with $188.4 million or 25.8% of exports to Peru.

Imports from Peru in October 2026 were $206.0 million (up 79.2% from October 2025), leaving a deficit of $146.9 million for the month.

Last 24 months

Monthly exportsExport value in US dollars (FOB).

Monthly importsImport value in US dollars (CIF).

What South Korea exports to Peru: chapters

Export value by HS chapter over the 12 months to October 2026; the largest 25 of 79.

Code	Product	Exports, 12 months	Share	vs 12 months before	October 2026
87	Vehicles, parts and accessories	$188.4M	25.8%	+12.1%	$14.5M
84	Machinery, boilers and computers	$126.3M	17.3%	+35.7%	$8.8M
39	Plastics and articles thereof	$97.0M	13.3%	-4.4%	$7.3M
85	Electrical machinery and electronics	$44.0M	6.0%	+60.7%	$2.1M
28	Inorganic chemicals	$25.7M	3.5%	-15.5%	$2.7M
27	Mineral fuels, oils and their products	$24.5M	3.4%	-40.2%	$1.1M
38	Miscellaneous chemical products	$24.0M	3.3%	+71.5%	$2.5M
30	Pharmaceutical products	$22.4M	3.1%	+15.8%	$2.0M
90	Optical, measuring and medical instruments	$20.4M	2.8%	+35.1%	$3.4M
33	Essential oils, perfumery and cosmetics	$19.6M	2.7%	+103.0%	$2.6M
29	Organic chemicals	$18.2M	2.5%	+4.3%	$905K
25	Salt, sulphur, stone, lime and cement	$16.8M	2.3%	+9.3%	$2.2M
72	Iron and steel	$16.1M	2.2%	+9.5%	$1.7M
34	Soap, washing preparations and waxes	$13.8M	1.9%	+116.4%	$156K
73	Articles of iron or steel	$13.0M	1.8%	+32.3%	$744K
40	Rubber and articles thereof	$7.6M	1.0%	+4.5%	$636K
32	Dyes, pigments, paints and inks	$7.3M	1.0%	+15.2%	$1.6M
19	Preparations of cereals, flour or milk, and bakery products	$5.6M	0.8%	+45.3%	$486K
83	Miscellaneous articles of base metal	$4.5M	0.6%	+11.6%	$298K
48	Paper and paperboard	$4.3M	0.6%	+84.3%	$167K
82	Tools and cutlery of base metal	$3.4M	0.5%	+18.5%	$236K
60	Knitted or crocheted fabrics	$2.7M	0.4%	+12.4%	$320K
54	Man-made filaments	$2.6M	0.4%	-16.3%	$347K
95	Toys, games and sports equipment	$2.4M	0.3%	+138.6%	$68K
03	Fish, crustaceans and other seafood	$2.3M	0.3%	+2,640%	$667K

Largest 4-digit headings

The 30 largest of 546 headings exported to Peru in the same 12 months.

Code	Product	Exports, 12 months	Share	vs 12 months before	October 2026
8704	Motor vehicles for the transport of goods	$71.9M	9.9%	+42.6%	$4.6M
8703	Passenger cars	$51.6M	7.1%	-10.1%	$4.8M
8429	Bulldozers, excavators and other earth-moving machinery	$43.9M	6.0%	+27.0%	$2.9M
8708	Parts and accessories of motor vehicles	$40.1M	5.5%	+3.5%	$3.1M
3901	Polymers of ethylene, in primary forms	$34.9M	4.8%	+18.1%	$2.4M
2710	Refined petroleum oils	$24.2M	3.3%	-40.6%	$1.1M
8702	Buses (motor vehicles for ten or more persons)	$23.8M	3.3%	+44.7%	$1.8M
3902	Polymers of propylene, in primary forms	$20.9M	2.9%	-40.3%	$1.5M
3304	Beauty, make-up and skin care preparations	$18.8M	2.6%	+102.5%	$2.4M
3817	Mixed alkylbenzenes and mixed alkylnaphthalenes	$17.7M	2.4%	+112.6%	$1.9M
2523	Portland cement, aluminous cement, slag cement, etc.	$16.5M	2.3%	+7.6%	$2.2M
2837	Cyanides, cyanide oxides and complex cyanides	$15.7M	2.2%	-26.3%	$1.8M
3002	Blood products, vaccines and immunological products	$13.3M	1.8%	+22.4%	$1.3M
8487	Other machinery parts without electrical features	$12.2M	1.7%	+6,308%	$230K
3402	Surfactants, detergents and cleaning preparations	$11.8M	1.6%	+114.9%	$50K
8507	Rechargeable batteries (electric accumulators)	$11.5M	1.6%	-18.9%	$819K
3921	Other plates, sheets and film of plastics	$10.6M	1.5%	+25.0%	$928K
7208	Flat-rolled iron or non-alloy steel, hot-rolled	$10.3M	1.4%	+9.5%	$739K
8431	Parts for cranes, excavators and other heavy machinery	$9.9M	1.4%	+25.6%	$698K
9018	Medical, surgical and dental instruments	$8.2M	1.1%	+12.1%	$435K
3004	Medicaments, in measured doses or retail packs	$8.2M	1.1%	+7.7%	$436K
3903	Polymers of styrene, in primary forms	$8.0M	1.1%	+4.1%	$468K
3907	Polyethers, epoxide resins and polyesters, in primary forms	$7.0M	1.0%	+85.1%	$606K
8415	Air conditioners	$5.9M	0.8%	+2.9%	$668K
2929	Compounds with other nitrogen function	$5.7M	0.8%	+8.3%	$332K
8421	Centrifuges and filtering or purifying machinery	$5.7M	0.8%	+10.5%	$504K
3204	Synthetic organic dyes and pigments	$5.6M	0.8%	+11.7%	$1.4M
8502	Electric generating sets and rotary converters	$5.4M	0.7%	–	$0
8543	Electrical machines and apparatus with individual functions	$5.3M	0.7%	+922.6%	$36K
7326	Other articles of iron or steel	$4.7M	0.6%	+63.3%	$205K

A chapter is linked when exports to Peru reached $1,000,000 over 24 months, a heading when they reached $5,000,000. "Share" is the share of all exports to Peru.

Featured industry: cosmetics exports to Peru, by 6-digit product.

Monthly figures

Month	Exports	vs year earlier	Export weight	Export $/kg	Imports	Import weight
October 2026	$59.1M	+40.5%	85,888 t	$0.69	$206.0M	152,982 t
September 2026	$79.0M	+34.5%	109,168 t	$0.72	$314.6M	309,086 t
August 2026	$62.7M	-11.9%	49,381 t	$1.27	$329.1M	306,415 t
July 2026	$77.4M	+25.9%	99,513 t	$0.78	$324.4M	203,527 t
June 2026	$74.0M	+50.5%	18,106 t	$4.09	$425.6M	284,393 t
May 2026	$57.6M	+17.2%	84,603 t	$0.68	$164.9M	83,237 t
April 2026	$67.7M	+10.4%	66,937 t	$1.01	$193.9M	102,609 t
March 2026	$55.3M	+20.5%	57,853 t	$0.96	$316.1M	219,474 t
February 2026	$52.9M	+1.6%	63,477 t	$0.83	$282.6M	295,892 t
January 2026	$46.7M	+15.4%	40,173 t	$1.16	$248.6M	249,240 t
December 2025	$51.4M	-0.7%	63,072 t	$0.81	$167.9M	67,102 t
November 2025	$46.2M	+2.6%	19,602 t	$2.36	$93.2M	25,696 t
October 2025	$42.0M	-15.5%	80,682 t	$0.52	$115.0M	148,283 t
September 2025	$58.8M	+23.0%	132,290 t	$0.44	$88.8M	31,087 t
August 2025	$71.1M	+46.7%	98,765 t	$0.72	$244.2M	200,698 t
July 2025	$61.5M	+27.3%	36,924 t	$1.66	$232.8M	183,884 t
June 2025	$49.2M	+5.9%	70,393 t	$0.70	$214.8M	231,588 t
May 2025	$49.1M	-9.6%	64,793 t	$0.76	$178.4M	194,375 t
April 2025	$61.4M	+8.4%	166,699 t	$0.37	$346.0M	283,457 t
March 2025	$45.8M	-19.4%	15,946 t	$2.88	$393.4M	366,979 t
February 2025	$52.1M	+0.2%	89,283 t	$0.58	$228.4M	275,257 t
January 2025	$40.4M	-16.3%	17,011 t	$2.38	$257.6M	269,448 t
December 2024	$51.7M	-0.6%	70,602 t	$0.73	$151.6M	159,031 t
November 2024	$45.0M	-29.8%	105,489 t	$0.43	$129.1M	96,091 t

Exports FOB, imports CIF, US dollars. Weight is net weight. "vs year earlier" compares export value with the same month one year before and is left blank when that month was under $10,000. Source: Korea Customs Service, via data.go.kr.