With more than half of goods imports (62%), intermediary goods was the category with the highest import share in Latin American and the Caribbean in 2018. The following categories, capital goods and consumption goods, amounted together to close to a third (35%) of imports in that year.
Distribution of goods imported in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2018, by category
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Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean. (June 23, 2020). Distribution of goods imported in Latin America and the Caribbean in 2018, by category [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved July 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/913836/latin-america-caribbean-goods-imports-distribution/
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