1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202005

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202005, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 726.2516 million, and were down 57.95% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 57.32% at 332.7043 million, and imports were down 58.46% at 393.5473 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 60.8430 million and down 63.72%.

During the current year until 202005, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 5287.1340 million and were down 30.41% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 2611.2207 million and down 23.35%; imports were 2675.9134 million and down 36.15%. The total trade deficit was 64.6927 million and down 91.75%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHINA, PERU, UNITED STATES were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202005, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 983.1345 million, 694.5106 million, 691.6874 million, 331.9138 million, 313.6625 million. These values correspond to 18.59%, 13.14%, 13.08%, 6.28%, 5.93% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 17.87%, down 32.56%, down 33.40%, down 29.47%, down 34.01% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202005, 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 202005, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 482.2896 million, 455.0453 million, 227.0617 million, 197.7934 million, 174.5629 million. These values correspond to 18.47%, 17.43%, 8.70%, 7.57%, 6.69% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 15.91%, down 11.85%, down 46.78%, down 39.26%, up 0.57% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202005, 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 202005, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 594.8923 million, 500.8449 million, 239.4654 million, 208.2120 million, 179.7253 million. These values correspond to 22.23%, 18.72%, 8.95%, 7.78%, 6.72% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 33.09%, down 19.67%, down 53.38%, down 29.13%, down 41.62% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202005, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from ARGENTINA, INDIA, JAPAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, COLOMBIA at 215.5799 million, 160.8268 million, 122.4420 million, 120.2628 million, 112.1569 million, and up 8258.93%, down 55.42%, down 43.21%, up 26.21%, up 21.76%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, CHILE, MEXICO, RUSSIA at 498.0972 million, 102.7614 million, 67.3514 million, 67.2803 million, 56.1844 million, and down 32.65%, down 8.48%, down 48.93%, down 28.09%, up 61.63%.

Current year until 202005, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202005,  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 1132.3938 million, 522.9752 million, 470.5669 million, 334.1840 million, 269.6601 million, which were down 39.77%, down 18.93%, down 47.46%, down 38.77%, down 39.17% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.42%, 9.89%, 8.90%, 6.32%, 5.10% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202005, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 923.6395 million, 520.4039 million, 470.4759 million, 196.5040 million, 122.5848 million. These values correspond to 35.37%, 19.93%, 18.02%, 7.53%, 4.69% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 14.12%, down 18.60%, down 47.43%, down 3.11%, down 2.52% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202005, 84, 87, 85, 27, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 333.6271 million, 269.6537 million, 236.7516 million, 208.7543 million, 158.0473 million. These values correspond to 12.47%, 10.08%, 8.85%, 7.80%, 5.91% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 38.77%, down 39.17%, down 36.67%, down 74.06%, down 23.86% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202005, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202005, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 691.6874 million and were down 33.40% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 96.7951 million and down 35.26%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 594.8923 million and down 33.09%. The total binational trade deficit was 498.0972 million and down 32.65%.

During the urrent year until 202005, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 84, 26, 87, 72, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 101.0833 million, 77.4496 million, 70.2293 million, 67.5205 million, 38.6643 million and makes up 14.61%, 11.20%, 10.15%, 9.76%, 5.59% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 40.88%, down 37.43%, down 49.30%, down 47.02%, down 30.39% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202005, 26, 02, 44, 12, 74 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 70.2287 million, 15.6593 million, 3.8610 million, 2.1813 million, 1.7387 million. These values account for 72.55%, 16.18%, 3.99%, 2.25%, 1.80% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 49.30%, 0, up 53.49%, up 1200.42%, down 28.05% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202005, 85, 84, 87, 72, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 101.0833 million, 77.4496 million, 67.5205 million, 38.6643 million, 31.3088 million. These values account for 16.99%, 13.02%, 11.35%, 6.50%, 5.26% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 40.88%, down 37.43%, down 47.02%, down 30.33%, down 26.92% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica