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El Salvador Trade at a Glance : Most Recent Values

Latest trade data available from various sources.
El Salvador monthly trade data
El Salvador quarterly trade data

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El Salvador exports, imports, trade and tariff indicators 2023

Please note the exports, imports and tariff data are based on reported data and not gap filled. Please check the Data Availability for coverage.

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El Salvador Trade

Overall Exports and Imports for El Salvador 2025

The total value of exports (FOB) is US$ 6,429 million.
The total value of imports (CIF) is US$ 17,848 million.
The total trade was US$ 24,277 million.
The trade balance was US$ -11,420 million.

El Salvador Monthly Exports and imports, in Mar 2026

The total value of exports (FOB) is US$ 582,610 K.
The total value of imports (CIF) is US$ 1,716,775 K.
The total trade was US$ 2,299,385 K.
The trade balance was US$ -1,134,164 K.

El Salvador Trade Indicators 2023

Hirschman Herfindahl Market concentration index is 0.19.
Index of export market penetration is 0.19.
World Growth in percentage is 0.19 and El Salvador Country Growth is 0.90.

El Salvador Service Trade data from WDI 2023

El Salvador, Service imports (BoP, current US$) is 2,659,656,816.11.
El Salvador, Service exports (BoP, current US$) is 5,108,560,271.52.
El Salvador, Imports of goods and services as percentage of GDP is 50.32 %.
El Salvador, Exports of goods and services as percentage of GDP is 31.40 %.

Tariff and Trade Barriers

Tariffs 2022

Tariffs imposed by El Salvador in 2022 are below.

The maximum rate of tariff in percentage on any product is 164.
The simple average tariff across all products is 3.11.
The trade weighted average tariff is 2.21.
The total duty free imports in thousands of US dollars are 10,087,961.42 and duty free tariff line items share is 70.43.

El Salvador Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) 2024

FDI Inward stock (in US$ Mil) was US$ 11,390 million.
FDI Inward stock flow (in US$ Mil) was US$ 640 million.
FDI Outward stock (in US$ Mil) was US$ 1,732 million.
FDI Outward stock flow (in US$ Mil) was US$ 4 million.

Non-Tariff Measures (NTM) 2014

No Of NTM Measures is 27.
No Of NTM Affected Products (HS 6 Digit) is 1,910.

El Salvador World Development Indicators (WDI) 2023

Key Development Indicators of El Salvador in 2023 are below

The population of El Salvador is 6,420,744.
GDP in US$ is 33,854 million .
GNI per capita, Atlas method in current US dollars is 4,950.00.
Trade balance in US$ is -6,405.00 million.
Trade in services as percentage of GDP is -18.92 %.

WDI

El Salvador Global Value Chain (GVC) 2015

GVC related output as percentage of output was 7 %.
GVC related trade as percentage of trade was 32 %.

GVC

El Salvador Services Service Policy Restrictive Database (SPRD)

Services Trade Restrictions Index (Over All) for El Salvador is not available.

SPRD