Trade Profiles
2021 Trade in commercial services
Transport
Travel Other commercial services
Industrial property
Merchandise trade Agricultural products Nonagricultural products
Uruguay
Uruguay
GDP (million current US$, 2020) GDP per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Current account balance (% GDP, 2020) Trade per capita (US$, 2018-2020) Trade (% GDP, 2018-2020)
55 711 17 307 -1.4 4 058 23.4
Rank in world trade, 2020 Merchandise excluding intra-EU trade Commercial services excluding intra-EU trade
Exports
96 72 79 53
Imports
106 81 83 58
MERCHANDISE TRADE Value
Million US$ Merchandise exports, f.o.b. Merchandise imports, c.i.f. Share in world total exports (%)
Annual percentage change
2020 6 857 7 564
2010-2020 0 -1
2019 2 -7
2020 0.04
Share in world total imports (%)
2020 -11 -8 2020 0.04
Breakdown in economy's total exports
Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main commodity group, % (2019)
By main commodity group, % (2019)
Agricultural products: 80
Fuels and mining products: 1.5
Agricultural products: 17.2
Fuels and mining products: 14.4
Manufactures: 18.4
Other: 0
Manufactures: 68.4
Other: 0.1
By main destination, % (2020)
By main origin, % (2020)
China: 20.3 European Union: 7.8 Argentina: 4.4
Brazil: 15.4 United States of America: 7.7 Other: 44.5
Brazil: 21.1 Argentina: 13 United States of America: 11.4
China: 19 European Union: 12.9 Other: 22.6
Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS0202 HS1201 HS0402 HS1006 HS0201
2020 . 1 265 752 467 462 293
Meat of bovine animals, frozen Soya beans, whether or not broken Milk and cream, concentrated Rice Bovine meat, fresh, chilled
Value
Top imported products (Million US$) HS0201 HS0203 HS0903 HS2309 HS1005
2020
Bovine meat, fresh, chilled Swine meat, fresh, chilled, frozen Maté Preparations of a kind used in animal feeding Maize (corn)
116 98 64 52 51
Share in economy's trade in agricultural products Exports 0%
20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS0202
HS0201
HS1201
HS0203
HS0402
HS0903
HS1006
HS2309
HS0201
HS1005
5%
10%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 4 634 1 272
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 1 4
2019 11 -7
2020 -9 0
Non-Agricultural Products Value
Top exported products (Million US$) HS4403 HS3923 HS4407 HS3004 HS8704
Wood in the rough Conveyance of goods' articles Wood sawn or chipped lengthwise Medicaments in measured doses Motor vehicles for goods transport
2020
Top imported products (Million US$)
678 129 101 82 80
HS2709 HS8703 HS8525 HS3808 HS3004
Value 2020
Petroleum oils, crude Motor cars for transport of persons Radio-telephony transmission tools Insecticides, rodenticides Medicaments in measured doses
681 252 241 159 155
Share in economy's trade in non-agricultural products Exports 0%
384
20%
Imports 40%
0%
HS4403
HS2709
HS3923
HS8703
HS4407
HS8525
HS3004
HS3808
HS8704
HS3004
5%
10%
15%
Million US$ Exports Imports
Value
2020 2 220 6 293
Annual percentage change
2010-2020 -2 -2
2019 -11 -7
2020 -15 -10
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Uruguay TRADE IN COMMERCIAL SERVICES Value
Million US$ Commercial services exports Commercial services imports
Annual percentage change
2020
2010-2020
3 499 3 429 2020 0.07
Share in world total exports (%) Breakdown in economy's total exports
2019
2020
-3 4
-33 -25
3 9
2020 0.07
Share in world total imports (%) Breakdown in economy's total imports
By main services item, % (2020)
By main services item, % (2020)
Transport: 11.3 Other commercial services: 57.4
Travel: 30.3 Goods-related services: 0.9
Transport: 27.3 Other commercial services: 61.7
By main destination
Travel: 9.9 Goods-related services: 1.1
By main origin
Value
FATS sales Inward (million US$) Outward (million US$)
Annual percentage change
2020 na na
2010-2020 na na
2019 na na
2020 na na
Transport Uruguay
200
World
100 0
2010
2013
2016
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
2020
Transport exports (Index 2010=100)
2020 395 935
Exports By sea (2020) By air (2020) By other (2020)
Value 133 19 242
2010-2020 -2 3
Share (%)
Annual percentage change 2019 -1 -8
Imports By sea (2020) By air (2020) By other (2020)
33.6 4.7 61.2
2020 -25 -17
Value
Share (%)
552 132 250
59.0 14.2 26.8
Travel Uruguay
200
World
Value
Million US$ Exports Imports
100 0
2010
2013
2016
2020 1 061 341
2010-2020 -3 -2
Annual percentage change 2019 -14 17
2020 -53 -72
2020
Travel exports (Index 2010=100)
Other Commercial Services and Goods-related Services Million US$
Exports of OCS by main item (2020) 14.1
4.4
2020
2010-2020
Other commercial services Exports 2 009 Imports 2 114
Other business services ICTs 43.4
38.2
Value
Financial services
12 19
2020
Goods-related services Exports Imports
Other
Annual percentage change
2010-2020
33 39
na na
2019
2020
11 4
-16 -4
2019
2020
9 29
-15 -23
INDUSTRIAL PROPERTY Patent applications, 2017 Residents
23
Non-residents
500
Trademark applications, 2019 Total
523
World Trade Organization – Trade Profiles 2021
Residents
2 512
Non-residents
2 968
Industrial design applications, 2017 Total
5 480
Residents
53
Non-residents
62
Total
115
385