Tires: Slight Fall in Imports in 2018

Last year, companies from Central American countries imported new tires for $444 million, 2% less than what was reported in 2017.

Tuesday, July 16, 2019

Neumatic Tire Market Imports in Central America Al March 31st, 2022  

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Guatemalan Companies, Main Buyers
During 2018, the main importer of new pneumatic tires in Central America was Guatemala, with $126 million, followed by Costa Rica, with $85 million, Panama, with $82 million, Honduras, with $65 million, El Salvador, with $45 million, and Nicaragua, with $40 million.

Regional Business: Slight Decrease
Between 2017 and 2018 the value imported into Central America had a negative variation, falling from $450 million to $444 million.

Contrary to the behavior of purchases in general, for the periods concerned, imports from China increased 3%, from $223 million to $229 million.

Main Suppliers
Last year, 52% of the value imported into the region came from China, 5% from Japan, 5% from the U.S., 3% from Brazil and 3% from Thailand.

China is the market origin of imports that has grown the most over the last seven years, since in 2012 represented 32% of total imports in the region and in 2018 that proportion rose to 52%.

Note: For this report, prepared by CentralAmericaData, SIECA data were used.

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