1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202012

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202012, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1593.7886 million, and were down 7.44% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were up 6.36% at 773.8239 million, and imports were down 17.54% at 819.9646 million. And the corresponding trade deficit was 46.1407 million and down 82.71%.

During the current year until 202012, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 13977.9002 million and were down 24.61% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 6897.9037 million and down 21.23%; imports were 7079.9965 million and down 27.64%. The total trade deficit was 182.0928 million and down 82.27%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, PERU, INDIA were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202012, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 2281.1852 million, 1935.5184 million, 1734.7043 million, 996.1146 million, 901.9377 million. These values correspond to 16.32%, 13.85%, 12.41%, 7.13%, 6.45% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 25.36%, down 23.04%, down 29.44%, down 3.63%, down 0.68% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202012, 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 202012, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 1085.2657 million, 1019.7343 million, 717.4861 million, 527.3776 million, 448.1925 million. These values correspond to 15.73%, 14.78%, 10.40%, 7.65%, 6.50% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 27.55%, down 25.06%, down 2.68%, down 26.73%, up 20.26% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202012, 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 202012, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 1580.1422 million, 1195.9195 million, 714.9700 million, 565.2131 million, 547.9221 million. These values correspond to 22.32%, 16.89%, 10.10%, 7.98%, 7.74% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 25.42%, down 23.25%, down 34.88%, down 7.47%, down 17.11% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, JAPAN, ARGENTINA, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES, COLOMBIA at 533.0345 million, 342.6449 million, 304.7643 million, 273.6973 million, 263.7902 million, and down 5.88%, down 21.83%, up 16.01%, down 67.57%, up 25.46%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, UNITED STATES, CHILE, MEXICO, GERMANY at 1224.7660 million, 268.2588 million, 193.8486 million, 160.0323 million, 113.9633 million, and down 28.91%, up 52.60%, down 49.78%, down 30.78%, down 10.61%.

Current year until 202012, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202012,  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 2947.2685 million, 1486.1733 million, 1478.6718 million, 815.5599 million, 676.6806 million, which were down 33.85%, down 24.99%, down 27.83%, down 32.76%, down 36.32% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 21.09%, 10.63%, 10.58%, 5.83%, 4.84% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202012, 27, 71, 26, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 2029.2961 million, 1480.2754 million, 1478.4075 million, 515.2054 million, 333.6738 million. These values correspond to 29.42%, 21.46%, 21.43%, 7.47%, 4.84% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 27.45%, down 24.77%, down 27.77%, up 10.14%, up 17.67% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 27, 84, 87, 85, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 917.9724 million, 813.5058 million, 676.6648 million, 535.8539 million, 389.4542 million. These values correspond to 12.97%, 11.49%, 9.56%, 7.57%, 5.50% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were down 44.63%, down 32.78%, down 36.32%, down 41.94%, down 21.14% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202012, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202012, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 1935.5184 million and were down 23.04% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 355.3762 million and down 10.27%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 1580.1422 million and down 25.42%. The total binational trade deficit was 1224.7660 million and down 28.91%.

During the urrent year until 202012, commodities with hs2 code, 26, 85, 84, 87, 38, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 247.1431 million, 245.0241 million, 205.2353 million, 175.8535 million, 101.4325 million and makes up 12.77%, 12.66%, 10.60%, 9.09%, 5.24% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also down 29.18%, down 39.18%, down 26.42%, down 41.24%, up 0.14% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202012, 26, 02, 44, 25, 12 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 247.1425 million, 58.6346 million, 21.4103 million, 11.1190 million, 5.9567 million. These values account for 69.54%, 16.50%, 6.02%, 3.13%, 1.68% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were down 29.18%, up 452.82%, up 241.61%, up 8.83%, up 1433.62% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202012, 85, 84, 87, 38, 72 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 245.0241 million, 205.2353 million, 175.8535 million, 101.2358 million, 86.5256 million. These values account for 15.51%, 12.99%, 11.13%, 6.41%, 5.48% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 39.18%, down 26.42%, down 41.24%, up 0.08%, down 30.08% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica