1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202006

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202006, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1082.9482 million, and were down 28.61% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 25.09% at 559.3385 million, and imports were down 32.01% at 523.6096 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 35.7289 million and down 252.34%.

During the current year until 202006, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 6370.0822 million and were down 30.11% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 3170.5592 million and down 23.67%; imports were 3199.5230 million and down 35.51%. The total trade deficit was 28.9638 million and down 96.41%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, CHINA, PERU, UNITED STATES were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202006, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 1132.9141 million, 856.1959 million, 844.7642 million, 399.4417 million, 391.8852 million. These values correspond to 17.78%, 13.44%, 13.26%, 6.27%, 6.15% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 19.11%, down 31.42%, down 33.01%, down 28.94%, down 29.28% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202006, 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 202006, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 558.7205 million, 554.8186 million, 243.2611 million, 228.4380 million, 217.0620 million. These values correspond to 17.62%, 17.50%, 7.67%, 7.20%, 6.85% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 16.01%, down 16.30%, down 49.54%, down 41.53%, up 6.74% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202006, 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 202006, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 722.6660 million, 574.1936 million, 301.3774 million, 259.5497 million, 215.1869 million. These values correspond to 22.59%, 17.95%, 9.42%, 8.11%, 6.73% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 33.00%, down 21.91%, down 48.54%, down 22.21%, down 40.11% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202006, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from ARGENTINA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, INDIA, COLOMBIA, JAPAN at 253.4412 million, 179.6754 million, 169.1466 million, 144.7777 million, 138.1606 million, and up 228.29%, up 12.02%, down 57.54%, up 35.18%, down 46.78%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, MEXICO, RUSSIA, CHILE at 600.5679 million, 127.2143 million, 78.1230 million, 75.2447 million, 74.2495 million, and down 33.00%, up 12.40%, down 32.35%, up 80.35%, down 54.56%.

Current year until 202006, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202006,  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 1372.3136 million, 634.1385 million, 587.5400 million, 402.1990 million, 308.4050 million, which were down 38.27%, down 20.41%, down 45.85%, down 38.53%, down 41.64% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.54%, 9.95%, 9.22%, 6.31%, 4.84% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202006, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1095.5157 million, 631.4343 million, 587.4464 million, 239.5149 million, 155.4865 million. These values correspond to 34.55%, 19.92%, 18.53%, 7.55%, 4.90% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 16.15%, down 20.04%, down 45.82%, down 4.47%, up 6.77% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202006, 84, 87, 27, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 401.4132 million, 308.3985 million, 276.7979 million, 274.0471 million, 183.4461 million. These values correspond to 12.55%, 9.64%, 8.65%, 8.57%, 5.73% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 38.56%, down 41.64%, down 69.80%, down 42.16%, down 24.47% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202006, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202006, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 844.7642 million and were down 33.01% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 122.0982 million and down 33.01%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 722.6660 million and down 33.00%. The total binational trade deficit was 600.5679 million and down 33.00%.

During the urrent year until 202006, 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 119.5474 million, 90.6720 million, 87.1908 million, 75.8752 million, 44.3893 million and makes up 14.15%, 10.73%, 10.32%, 8.98%, 5.25% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 48.60%, down 37.23%, down 48.63%, down 48.91%, down 35.69% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202006, 26, 02, 44, 12, 74 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 87.1902 million, 17.9122 million, 5.1803 million, 3.8068 million, 3.5740 million. These values account for 71.41%, 14.67%, 4.24%, 3.12%, 2.93% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 48.63%, 0, up 84.99%, up 2169.51%, up 47.90% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202006, 85, 84, 87, 72, 73 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 119.5474 million, 90.6720 million, 75.8752 million, 44.3893 million, 38.4387 million. These values account for 16.54%, 12.55%, 10.50%, 6.14%, 5.32% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 48.60%, down 37.23%, down 48.91%, down 35.65%, down 31.55% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica