Strategic Lens

Fertiliser: Chile and South Africa

First country

Second country

In 2025, Chile sold USD 29.7 million of fertilisers to South Africa and bought USD 1.9 million from it.

Constraints

  • BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, Chile sold USD 29.7 million of fertilisers, against USD 1.9 million the other way.
  • BothTwo-way trade in fertilisers is 74 percent below its 2022 peak of USD 123 million.

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Last updated on 26 September 2026

The numbers

Chile's exports to South Africa: fertilisers

USD million · 2019 to 2025, calendar years, as reported by Chile

2019: 29.2Low 22 / High 120.42025: 29.7

201929.2
202022
202141.2
2022120.4
202336.3
202435
202529.7

Sources: UN Comtrade (public preview API), annual goods trade, HS classification (retrieved 26 September 2026)

Data retrieved 26 September 2026