1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202011

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202011, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1340.1849 million, and were down 0.13% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 5.65% at 729.7553 million, and imports were down 6.27% at 610.4296 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 119.3257 million and up 202.18%.

During the current year until 202011, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 12384.1117 million and were down 26.37% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 6124.0798 million and down 23.73%; imports were 6260.0319 million and down 28.78%. The total trade deficit was 135.9521 million and down 82.12%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, PERU, UNITED STATES were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202011, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 2052.4934 million, 1744.9767 million, 1567.5273 million, 858.2265 million, 777.6053 million. These values correspond to 16.57%, 14.09%, 12.66%, 6.93%, 6.28% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 26.58%, down 23.02%, down 29.13%, down 9.47%, down 18.87% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202011, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners BRAZIL, ARGENTINA, INDIA, JAPAN, PERU are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202011, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 995.9564 million, 948.9839 million, 554.6706 million, 482.0639 million, 394.9606 million. These values correspond to 16.26%, 15.50%, 9.06%, 7.87%, 6.45% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 28.28%, down 25.12%, down 8.72%, down 27.57%, up 14.62% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202011, 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 202011, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 1439.5245 million, 1056.5370 million, 618.5434 million, 516.3640 million, 463.2659 million. These values correspond to 23.00%, 16.88%, 9.88%, 8.25%, 7.40% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 24.72%, down 24.91%, down 34.51%, down 7.52%, down 23.23% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202011, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, ARGENTINA, JAPAN, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, COLOMBIA at 402.4309 million, 330.4404 million, 315.8322 million, 263.3086 million, 239.0034 million, and down 11.79%, up 2.35%, down 24.28%, down 67.87%, up 12.33%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, CHILE, MEXICO, GERMANY at 1134.0723 million, 255.1227 million, 163.7990 million, 145.3738 million, 105.5161 million, and down 27.19%, up 61.27%, down 49.89%, down 31.19%, down 8.90%.

Current year until 202011, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202011,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 26, 71, 84, 87, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 2564.5529 million, 1281.5435 million, 1262.1586 million, 751.6790 million, 612.2804 million, which were down 36.94%, down 31.27%, down 29.41%, down 32.29%, down 36.06% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 20.71%, 10.35%, 10.19%, 6.07%, 4.94% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202011, 27, 26, 71, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 1880.8270 million, 1281.3203 million, 1257.1123 million, 461.0678 million, 293.0930 million. These values correspond to 30.71%, 20.92%, 20.53%, 7.53%, 4.79% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 27.77%, down 31.21%, down 29.22%, up 3.17%, up 10.16% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202011, 84, 27, 87, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 749.8530 million, 683.7259 million, 612.2685 million, 488.2861 million, 348.1923 million. These values correspond to 11.98%, 10.92%, 9.78%, 7.80%, 5.56% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 32.35%, down 53.27%, down 36.06%, down 43.54%, down 21.89% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202011, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202011, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1744.9767 million and were down 23.02% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 305.4522 million and down 13.85%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 1439.5245 million and down 24.72%. The total binational trade deficit was 1134.0723 million and down 27.19%.

During the urrent year until 202011, commodities with hs2 code, 85, 26, 84, 87, 38, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 225.1243 million, 211.2201 million, 187.5307 million, 155.9758 million, 93.3330 million and makes up 12.90%, 12.10%, 10.75%, 8.94%, 5.35% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 40.02%, down 33.81%, down 25.65%, down 43.15%, up 16.68% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202011, 26, 02, 44, 25, 12 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 211.2195 million, 51.2083 million, 18.1978 million, 9.6167 million, 5.6836 million. These values account for 69.15%, 16.76%, 5.96%, 3.15%, 1.86% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 33.81%, up 1043.34%, up 240.47%, up 1.30%, up 2615.72% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202011, 85, 84, 87, 38, 73 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 225.1243 million, 187.5307 million, 155.9758 million, 93.1364 million, 73.6003 million. These values account for 15.64%, 13.03%, 10.84%, 6.47%, 5.11% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 40.02%, down 25.65%, down 43.15%, up 16.60%, down 34.33% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica