# Uruguay exports to Argentina: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

Understand reported exports from Uruguay to Argentina, the product routes that need a closer look, and the conditions that may affect planning.

Canonical: https://www.yugalinks.com/trade/corridor/URY-ARG/risk

## Route overview

In 2024, Uruguay reported $776.0M in goods exports to Argentina. The overall review level is Critical attention.

## How to read this page

High attention means one or more conditions on these product types deserve a closer look. It is not a prediction that trade will stop or that a loss is certain. An HS6 code is the international six-digit code used to describe and compare traded goods.

## Key numbers

| Measure | Value | What it means |
| --- | ---: | --- |
| Latest reported exports | $776.0M | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 69.7% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 2 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 18 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 1.4 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 31.5% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 120190 | Soya beans: other than seed, whether or not broken | $3.0B | 59.6% | Critical attention |
| 2 | 271600 | Electrical energy | $528.4M | 27% | High attention |
| 3 | 854430 | Insulated electric conductors: ignition wiring sets and other wiring sets of a kind used in vehicles, aircraft or ships | $249.3M | 1.7% | Stable |
| 4 | 470329 | Wood pulp: chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, (other than dissolving grades), semi-bleached or bleached, of non-coniferous wood | $111.6M | 21.6% | High attention |
| 5 | 440398 | Wood: of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp.), in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated | $44.4M | 0% | High attention |
| 6 | 151790 | Edible mixtures or preparations of animal or vegetable fats or oils or of fractions of different fats or oils of this chapter, other than edible fats or oils of heading no. 1516 | $39.1M | 8.8% | High attention |
| 7 | 340211 | Organic surface-active agents: anionic (other than soap), whether or not put up for retail sale | $48.1M | 10.1% | High attention |
| 8 | 870421 | Vehicles: compression-ignition internal combustion piston engine (diesel or semi-diesel), for transport of goods, (of a gvw not exceeding 5 tonnes), n.e.c. in item no 8704.1 | $131.4M | 68.6% | Critical attention |
| 9 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.s. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $919.3M | 0% | Watch |
| 10 | 210690 | Food preparations: n.e.s. in item no. 2106.10 | $116.9M | 0% | Watch |

## Data sources

- Primary trade series: OECD (2025), Balanced international merchandise trade statistics (BIMTS) - HS2017-6D, OECD Data Explorer (accessed on 2026-08-29). [OECD Data Explorer](https://data-explorer.oecd.org/) - [OECD Terms & Conditions](https://www.oecd.org/termsandconditions/)
- CEPII BACI bilateral trade flows (202601): [dataset page](https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37) - [BACI documentation](https://www.cepii.fr/DATA_DOWNLOAD/baci/doc/baci_webpage.html) - [Etalab 2.0 Open Licence](https://www.etalab.gouv.fr/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/open-licence.pdf)

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