1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202008

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202008, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 918.2356 million, and were down 44.99% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 43.00% at 459.5541 million, and imports were down 46.84% at 458.6814 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 0.8727 million and down 101.54%.

During the current year until 202008, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 8409.5593 million and were down 32.31% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 4162.1882 million and down 28.26%; imports were 4247.3712 million and down 35.87%. The total trade deficit was 85.1830 million and down 89.63%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, PERU, UNITED STATES were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202008, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 1442.4697 million, 1182.2864 million, 1157.3448 million, 548.4987 million, 484.2953 million. These values correspond to 17.15%, 14.06%, 13.76%, 6.52%, 5.76% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 23.74%, down 30.75%, down 30.83%, down 25.99%, down 33.69% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202008, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, 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 202008, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 736.7894 million, 708.4456 million, 347.7851 million, 302.7842 million, 297.0820 million. These values correspond to 17.70%, 17.02%, 8.36%, 7.27%, 7.14% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 22.86%, down 19.23%, down 32.12%, down 39.51%, down 1.86% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202008, 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 202008, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 1016.0630 million, 734.0242 million, 420.5554 million, 320.4033 million, 291.1673 million. These values correspond to 23.92%, 17.28%, 9.90%, 7.54%, 6.86% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 30.08%, down 27.64%, down 41.43%, down 26.81%, down 37.00% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from ARGENTINA, INDIA, COLOMBIA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, JAPAN at 316.2340 million, 252.5338 million, 203.0282 million, 192.0609 million, 182.8873 million, and up 33.35%, down 36.35%, up 17.39%, down 60.16%, down 42.63%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, MEXICO, RUSSIA, CHILE at 849.8396 million, 156.5112 million, 101.6057 million, 83.1942 million, 79.2972 million, and down 29.13%, up 7.83%, down 35.24%, down 11.82%, down 65.58%.

Current year until 202008, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202008,  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 1781.3311 million, 808.2785 million, 789.0091 million, 527.8831 million, 420.8216 million, which were down 39.44%, down 34.59%, down 44.51%, down 38.97%, down 41.58% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.18%, 9.61%, 9.38%, 6.28%, 5.00% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202008, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1414.1605 million, 804.9643 million, 788.9152 million, 335.0575 million, 202.7313 million. These values correspond to 33.98%, 19.34%, 18.95%, 8.05%, 4.87% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 21.26%, down 34.37%, down 44.48%, down 7.23%, down 2.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, 84, 87, 27, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 526.3749 million, 420.8149 million, 367.1706 million, 357.5092 million, 243.3351 million. These values correspond to 12.39%, 9.91%, 8.64%, 8.42%, 5.73% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 39.04%, down 41.58%, down 67.94%, down 44.51%, down 27.00% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202008, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202008, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1182.2864 million and were down 30.75% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 166.2234 million and down 34.57%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 1016.0630 million and down 30.08%. The total binational trade deficit was 849.8396 million and down 29.13%.

During the urrent year until 202008, 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 171.3163 million, 126.3633 million, 114.8181 million, 109.4544 million, 58.3990 million and makes up 14.49%, 10.69%, 9.71%, 9.26%, 4.94% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 41.14%, down 34.61%, down 51.02%, down 47.83%, down 32.35% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202008, 26, 02, 44, 25, 12 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 114.8175 million, 27.2251 million, 8.3958 million, 4.4501 million, 4.2256 million. These values account for 69.07%, 16.38%, 5.05%, 2.68%, 2.54% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 51.02%, 0, up 107.21%, down 25.12%, up 1919.05% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202008, 85, 84, 87, 72, 38 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 171.3163 million, 126.3633 million, 109.4544 million, 58.3990 million, 56.4377 million. These values account for 16.86%, 12.44%, 10.77%, 5.75%, 5.55% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 41.14%, down 34.61%, down 47.83%, down 32.31%, down 3.14% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica