In 2025, Chile sold USD 69.2 million of goods to New Zealand and bought USD 78.2 million from it. The DESTA database lists 3 trade agreements that include both countries, the most recent being Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Transpacific Partnership (CPTPP) (2018). Both are members of the OECD and APEC. Their agreement score in UN General Assembly voting was 78 percent in 2023, and 79 percent on average over 2019 to 2023.
Benefits
BothTrade in goods runs both ways in similar amounts: Chile sold USD 69.2 million and New Zealand sold USD 78.2 million in 2025.
BothTrade in agricultural and food products runs both ways in similar amounts: Chile sold USD 30.5 million and New Zealand sold USD 39.9 million in 2025.
BothComprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Transpacific Partnership (CPTPP), signed 2018 and in force since 2018.
Constraints
BothTwo-way trade in machinery, vehicles and iron and steel fell 61 percent, from USD 38.4 million in 2019 to USD 15.0 million in 2025.
BothFlows are one-sided: in 2025, New Zealand sold USD 15.0 million of machinery, vehicles and iron and steel, and Chile sold almost none.