1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202003

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202003, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1163.1485 million, and were down 17.24% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 11.84% at 602.8109 million, and imports were down 22.35% at 560.3376 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 42.4732 million and down 212.19%.

During the current year until 202003, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 4027.4087 million and were down 9.33% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 2040.2863 million and up 2.14%; imports were 1987.1225 million and down 18.70%. The total trade surplus was 53.1638 million and down 111.90%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, INDIA, JAPAN were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202003, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 761.5740 million, 519.2920 million, 454.1715 million, 271.4408 million, 240.7482 million. These values correspond to 18.91%, 12.89%, 11.28%, 6.74%, 5.98% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 0.22%, down 18.12%, down 21.11%, down 3.84%, down 1.75% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202003, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, INDIA, JAPAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202003, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 372.1038 million, 291.3315 million, 227.0579 million, 178.2630 million, 116.8859 million. These values correspond to 18.24%, 14.28%, 11.13%, 8.74%, 5.73% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 4.88%, down 0.78%, down 6.29%, up 1.41%, up 67.28% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202003, BOLIVIA's exports to top five countries/territories CHINA, BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, UNITED STATES, PERU are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202003, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 437.8903 million, 389.4702 million, 162.8400 million, 148.3367 million, 142.1791 million. These values correspond to 22.04%, 19.60%, 8.19%, 7.46%, 7.16% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 18.38%, up 4.67%, down 42.28%, down 8.95%, down 15.79% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202003, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, ARGENTINA, JAPAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, HONG KONG at 182.6750 million, 128.4915 million, 115.7777 million, 115.7666 million, 85.5059 million, and down 9.70%, up 1015.73%, up 8.67%, up 69.80%, down 6806.05%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, RUSSIA, CHILE, MEXICO at 356.4885 million, 64.1883 million, 54.0177 million, 50.7700 million, 48.0877 million, and down 18.76%, up 27.69%, up 498.82%, up 24.20%, down 9.51%.

Current year until 202003, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202003,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 71, 26, 84, 87, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 847.1296 million, 504.8881 million, 431.2844 million, 242.7821 million, 239.3544 million, which were down 21.67%, up 31.66%, down 14.37%, down 27.87%, down 13.64% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.03%, 12.54%, 10.71%, 6.03%, 5.94% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202003, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 658.0866 million, 502.5972 million, 431.2190 million, 108.2161 million, 77.4230 million. These values correspond to 32.25%, 24.63%, 21.14%, 5.30%, 3.79% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 1.77%, up 31.94%, down 14.32%, up 0.79%, up 11.97% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202003, 84, 87, 27, 85, 72 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 242.3680 million, 239.3480 million, 189.0430 million, 173.5923 million, 115.8114 million. These values correspond to 12.20%, 12.04%, 9.51%, 8.74%, 5.83% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 27.88%, down 13.64%, down 54.06%, down 18.66%, down 18.65% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202003, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202003, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 519.2920 million and were down 18.12% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 81.4018 million and down 16.67%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 437.8903 million and down 18.38%. The total binational trade deficit was 356.4885 million and down 18.76%.

During the urrent year until 202003, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 26, 84, 87, 72, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 69.4285 million, 66.6236 million, 59.2615 million, 58.5419 million, 31.5445 million and makes up 13.37%, 12.83%, 11.41%, 11.27%, 6.07% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 19.06%, down 26.98%, down 18.36%, down 28.78%, down 11.70% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202003, 26, 02, 44, 74, 25 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 66.6230 million, 8.0527 million, 2.3919 million, 1.7387 million, 1.4667 million. These values account for 81.84%, 9.89%, 2.94%, 2.14%, 1.80% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 26.98%, 0, up 28.91%, up 24.39%, up 68.20% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202003, 85, 84, 87, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 69.4285 million, 59.2615 million, 58.5419 million, 31.5445 million, 21.6979 million. These values account for 15.86%, 13.53%, 13.37%, 7.20%, 4.96% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 19.06%, down 18.36%, down 28.78%, down 11.62%, down 19.48% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica