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  "slug": "lithium-trade",
  "kind": "flow",
  "title": "Lithium: the leading trade routes",
  "subtitle": "15 retained leading routes · 2024",
  "takeaway": "Chile → China is the largest retained route. Displayed routes cover 93.8% of primary-line world trade.",
  "period": "2024",
  "unit": "USD",
  "publisher": "CEPII BACI via Commodity Origins",
  "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
  "licenseUrl": "https://commodityorigins.com/sources/",
  "attribution": "CEPII BACI; derived primary-HS-line corridor snapshot from Commodity Origins.",
  "retrievedAt": null,
  "vintage": "2026-10-10T22:48:06.733043+00:00",
  "method": "Ribbon widths represent USD value for the 15 retained leading exporter–importer routes. These represent 93.8% of primary-line world value (677 total corridors). Node totals cover displayed routes only.",
  "notes": [
    "Selected primary HS line only, not all lithium products or physical tonnage. Reporting year 2024; snapshot generated 2026-10-10. Acquisition date is not supplied.",
    "Other routes are omitted. The data export contains exactly the displayed routes; broader commodity coverage is in the linked retained snapshot."
  ],
  "explorer": "/patterns/trade-flows/",
  "rows": [
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      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "China",
      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "2026662114",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 52.81273150733819,
      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · lithium · CHL → CHN"
    },
    {
      "place": "Argentina",
      "code": "ARG",
      "destination": "China",
      "destinationCode": "CHN",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "464030053",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 12.092146209836788,
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "South Korea",
      "destinationCode": "KOR",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "319380796",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
      "sharePct": 8.32273525578322,
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "United States",
      "destinationCode": "USA",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "111192812",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
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      "destination": "Japan",
      "destinationCode": "JPN",
      "period": "2024",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "Netherlands",
      "destinationCode": "NLD",
      "period": "2024",
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      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Argentina",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "Belgium",
      "destinationCode": "BEL",
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    },
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    },
    {
      "place": "South Korea",
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    },
    {
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "United Kingdom",
      "destinationCode": "GBR",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "30951965",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
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    },
    {
      "place": "Chile",
      "code": "CHL",
      "destination": "Germany",
      "destinationCode": "DEU",
      "period": "2024",
      "value": "20302120",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · lithium · CHL → DEU"
    },
    {
      "place": "United States",
      "code": "USA",
      "destination": "Germany",
      "destinationCode": "DEU",
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      "value": "14969775",
      "status": "Retained derived corridor value",
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      "sourceUrl": "https://www.cepii.fr/CEPII/en/bdd_modele/bdd_modele_item.asp?id=37",
      "sourceLocator": "/publisher-data/patterns/trade-flows.json · lithium · USA → DEU"
    }
  ],
  "commodity": "lithium",
  "topic": "Trade routes",
  "coveragePct": 93.76713835891344
}