# Uruguay exports to Ecuador: Trade Route Risk | Yugalinks

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

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

## Route overview

In 2024, Uruguay reported $71.4M in goods exports to Ecuador. The overall review level is Watch.

## 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 | $71.4M | 2024 route total |
| Exports needing review | 15.7% | Share of route exports |
| Highest-priority products | 0 | Need the closest review |
| Products needing review | 1 | High-attention product types |
| Export volatility | 0.9 | Higher means bigger yearly swings |
| Below highest year | 7.6% | Compared with the route's best year |

## Product types to review

| Rank | HS6 | Product | Buyer-market imports | Below product high | Review level |
| ---: | --- | --- | ---: | ---: | --- |
| 1 | 300490 | Medicaments: consisting of mixed or unmixed products n.e.s. in heading no. 3004, for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $504.7M | 10.3% | Stable |
| 2 | 330210 | Odoriferous substances and mixtures: of a kind used in the food or drink industries | $52.2M | 0% | Watch |
| 3 | 210690 | Food preparations: n.e.s. in item no. 2106.10 | $199.5M | 0.8% | Stable |
| 4 | 440398 | Wood: of eucalyptus (Eucalyptus spp.), in the rough, whether or not stripped of bark or sapwood, or roughly squared, untreated | $11.2M | 0% | High attention |
| 5 | 382499 | Chemical products, mixtures and preparations: n.e.c. heading 3824 | $85.2M | 0% | Watch |
| 6 | 300212 | Blood, human or animal, antisera, other blood fractions and immunological products: antisera and other blood fractions | $27.9M | 50.5% | Watch |
| 7 | 230120 | Flours, meals and pellets: of fish or of crustaceans, molluscs or other aquatic invertebrates | $36.9M | 69% | Watch |
| 8 | 300449 | Medicaments: containing alkaloids or their derivatives: other than ephedrine, pseudoephedrine (INN) or norephedrine or their salts: for therapeutic or prophylactic uses, packaged for retail sale | $10.5M | 66.1% | Watch |
| 9 | 300450 | Medicaments: containing vitamins or their derivatives, for therapeutic or prophylactic use, packaged for retail sale | $35.7M | 43.8% | Stable |
| 10 | 470321 | Wood pulp: chemical wood pulp, soda or sulphate, (other than dissolving grades), semi-bleached or bleached, of coniferous wood | $16.9M | 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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