June 8, 2023
VIA EDGAR
Mr. Joseph Klinko
Staff Accountant
Securities and Exchange Commission
Division of Corporation Finance
Office of Energy & Transportation
100 F Street, NE
Washington, D.C. 20549
Re: Chemical and Mining Company of Chile, Inc.
Form 20-F for Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2022
Filed April 26, 2023
File No. 033-65728
Dear Mr. Klinko:
As a follow-up to your telephone conversation on June 8, 2023, with Sey-Hyo Lee of our U.S. counsel, Winston & Strawn LLP, I am writing to confirm that Chemical and Mining Company of Chile (Sociedad Química y Minera de Chile S.A.) (“SQM” or the “Company”) is in receipt of the letter dated May 31, 2023 from the Office of Energy & Transportation of the Division of Corporation Finance, providing comments on the above-referenced Annual Report on Form 20-F of the Company for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2022 filed on April 26, 2023 and that the Company intends to respond to the comment letter by Thursday, June 29, 2023.
If you have any questions with regard to the foregoing or require additional information, please contact Sey-Hyo Lee at (212) 294-6655 or Allen Miller of Winston & Strawn LLP at (212) 294-5330.
Very truly yours,
/s/ Gerardo Illanes
Gerardo Illanes
Chief Financial Officer
cc:Mr. Gus Rodriguez, Staff Accountant
El Trovador 4285
Las Condes, Santiago, Chile
7550079
sqm.com