Overview
- The Consejo Empresarial Chile‑Perú (CEChP) is pressing for deeper cross‑border business integration with mining a top priority and said recent talks with Peruvian ministers reassured investors about the new administration’s priorities.
- Sofofa president Rosario Navarro proposed Chile’s system of organized small miners, including a national entity that groups artisanal operators, as a model Peru could adapt to move informal miners into formal supply chains.
- Experts and CEChP participants warned that illegal small‑scale mining in Peru is growing and that recent expansions of the Registro Integral de Formalización Minera (Reinfo) risk being used by illegal operators to mask illicit activity.
- Chilean investors singled out three main barriers to more investment in Peru—security and organized crime, slow and complex permitting (tramitología), and weak legal certainty—and the private sector plans to present specific regulatory fixes at a forthcoming binational forum.
- CEChP leaders say deeper cooperation could spur more Chilean investment in mining, technology and agro‑industry while boosting technology transfer and opportunities for Peruvian small and medium suppliers.