Weekly Report - 05 October 2017 (WR-17-39)

PERU | Service exports. Peru exported US$6.26bn worth of services (including tourism, banking, transport, and information technology services) in 2016, on central bank (BCRP) data, the foreign trade & tourism minister, Eduardo Ferreyros, revealed on 2 October. The figure is slightly lower than the US$6.28bn worth of services exported by the country in 2015, when they grew by 7% year-on-year. However, Ferreyros said that following the promulgation of the new ‘foreign exports promotion law’ by President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski in August this year, the government expects that exports of services will increase by 8% to US$6.76bn this year.