1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202004

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202004, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 533.4737 million, and were down 62.67% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 62.16% at 238.2301 million, and imports were down 63.06% at 295.2436 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 57.0135 million and down 66.41%.

During the current year until 202004, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 4560.8824 million and were down 22.31% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 2278.5163 million and down 13.27%; imports were 2282.3661 million and down 29.63%. The total trade deficit was 3.8498 million and down 99.38%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, PERU, INDIA were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202004, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 860.5021 million, 578.5085 million, 558.7993 million, 282.3292 million, 280.8751 million. These values correspond to 18.87%, 12.68%, 12.25%, 6.19%, 6.16% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 11.50%, down 30.13%, down 24.48%, down 21.87%, down 25.11% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202004, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, INDIA, JAPAN, COLOMBIA are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202004, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 424.3056 million, 361.7238 million, 227.0617 million, 184.1330 million, 132.2368 million. These values correspond to 18.62%, 15.88%, 9.97%, 8.08%, 5.80% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 11.62%, down 5.04%, down 29.85%, down 27.31%, up 10.02% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202004, 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 202004, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 491.7822 million, 436.1965 million, 197.0754 million, 181.1795 million, 160.5150 million. These values correspond to 21.55%, 19.11%, 8.63%, 7.94%, 7.03% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 30.20%, down 11.39%, down 45.11%, down 22.48%, down 33.87% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202004, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, ARGENTINA, JAPAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, HONG KONG at 173.2484 million, 164.6484 million, 118.3092 million, 115.5448 million, 84.7986 million, and down 36.37%, up 651.55%, down 27.70%, up 49.82%, down 8028.49%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, CHILE, MEXICO, RUSSIA at 405.0559 million, 89.7941 million, 65.8865 million, 59.0628 million, 54.4279 million, and down 30.29%, up 2.09%, down 3.75%, down 20.65%, up 228.59%.

Current year until 202004, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202004,  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 980.2796 million, 504.9598 million, 438.2011 million, 286.1004 million, 245.5108 million, which were down 29.72%, up 1.45%, down 36.64%, down 34.23%, down 32.54% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.49%, 11.07%, 9.61%, 6.27%, 5.38% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202004, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 775.5392 million, 502.6363 million, 438.1201 million, 147.0748 million, 102.5257 million. These values correspond to 34.04%, 22.06%, 19.23%, 6.45%, 4.50% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 7.94%, up 1.70%, down 36.61%, up 4.97%, up 13.39% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202004, 84, 87, 85, 27, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 285.5640 million, 245.5044 million, 205.6538 million, 204.7405 million, 130.5498 million. These values correspond to 12.51%, 10.76%, 9.01%, 8.97%, 5.72% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 34.24%, down 32.54%, down 30.31%, down 62.94%, down 20.41% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202004, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202004, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 578.5085 million and were down 30.13% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 86.7263 million and down 29.76%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 491.7822 million and down 30.20%. The total binational trade deficit was 405.0559 million and down 30.29%.

During the urrent year until 202004, 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 89.9493 million, 66.7768 million, 65.5725 million, 59.9106 million, 33.1022 million and makes up 15.55%, 11.54%, 11.33%, 10.36%, 5.72% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 31.48%, down 41.72%, down 30.02%, down 44.15%, down 23.77% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202004, 26, 02, 44, 74, 25 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 66.7762 million, 11.5157 million, 3.1059 million, 1.7387 million, 1.5430 million. These values account for 77.00%, 13.28%, 3.58%, 2.00%, 1.78% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 41.72%, 0, up 38.26%, down 12.44%, down 0.87% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202004, 85, 84, 87, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 89.9493 million, 65.5725 million, 59.9106 million, 33.1022 million, 24.0833 million. These values account for 18.29%, 13.33%, 12.18%, 6.73%, 4.90% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 31.48%, down 30.02%, down 44.15%, down 23.70%, down 29.72% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica