The National Administrative Department of Statistics (DANE) announced on Mar. 21 that Colombian imports reached US$5.9029 billion CIF in January 2026, marking a growth of 9.7 percent compared to the same month in 2025.
This increase is mainly attributed to a rise in manufactured goods, which grew by 14.1 percent over the previous year. The manufacturing sector accounted for the largest share of total import value at 77.7 percent, followed by agricultural products, food and beverages at 14.9 percent, fuels and extractive industry products at 7.3 percent, and other sectors with a marginal contribution of 0.1 percent.
In January, manufactured goods imports totaled US$4.5849 billion CIF, driven by higher purchases of machinery and transport equipment (up by 23 percent) as well as manufactured articles classified mainly by material (up by 11.5 percent). These two categories together contributed an additional 11.8 percentage points to the overall change within the manufacturing group.
Conversely, imports within fuels and extractive industries fell sharply during this period to US$433.9 million CIF—a decrease of 25.3 percent compared to January last year—mainly due to reduced purchases of petroleum and related products, which dropped by 36.2 percent and subtracted a negative contribution of more than twenty-three percentage points from this group’s variation.
Further details are available in the accompanying technical bulletin published by DANE.
