Footwear imported from China plays a key role on boosting Chilean footwear trade, 47.2% increasing in April’s imported varieties of shoes, sales amount to 68 million pairs annually. Chile heavily depends on imported footwear because only 10 million pairs of them made in local industry. China is the main footwear sourcing country for Chile, footwear imports grew 7.6% during the first four months to 21.1 pairs, among them 88% came from China. The imported footwear proportion from China had surged to 86% last year from 58%. 

At the same time exports saw a slight increase, with 12.5% rising in export value and 2.6% falling in the price of shoes.