1.  Overview the trade of BOLIVIA in goods current year until 202101

According to Dalian Infobank, in 202101, BOLIVIA's exports and imports of goods amounted to 1258.0354 million, and were down 19.05% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports were down 10.27% at 692.6415 million, and imports were down 27.72% at 565.3939 million. And the corresponding trade surplus was 127.2475 million and down 1331.24%.

During the current year until 202101, BOLIVIA's total exports and imports of goods were 1258.0354 million and were down 19.05% comparing to the same period of last year. Among these, exports were 692.6415 million and down 10.27%; imports were 565.3939 million and down 27.72%. The total trade surplus was 127.2475 million and down 1331.24%.

If considering by country (region), BRAZIL, CHINA, ARGENTINA, PERU, INDIA were BOLIVIA's top five trading partners. During the current year until 202101, BOLIVIA's imports and exports to five countries/territories were 178.0324 million, 145.8264 million, 140.2331 million, 121.0863 million, 98.5495 million. These values correspond to 14.15%, 11.59%, 11.15%, 9.63%, 7.83% of BOLIVIA's imports and exports, and, respectively, were down 48.89%, down 29.23%, up 6.24%, up 25.95%, down 22.08% comparing to the same period of last year.

Current year until 202101, BOLIVIA and the top five trade partners INDIA, ARGENTINA, BRAZIL, JAPAN, PERU are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA exports to in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202101, BOLIVIA's exports to these five countries/territories were 90.8219 million, 90.7375 million, 86.0149 million, 62.9162 million, 55.8474 million. These values correspond to 13.11%, 13.10%, 12.42%, 9.08%, 8.06% of BOLIVIA's exports and, respectively, were down 14.72%, up 16.55%, down 53.83%, up 65.03%, up 54.42% comparing with the same period of last year.

Current year until 202101, BOLIVIA's exports to top five countries/territories CHINA, BRAZIL, PERU, CHILE, ARGENTINA are the top five countries/territories that BOLIVIA imports from in terms of the total export amount. During the current year until 202101, BOLIVIA's imports from these five countries/territories were 103.1581 million, 92.0176 million, 65.2389 million, 63.5021 million, 49.4957 million. These values correspond to 18.25%, 16.27%, 11.54%, 11.23%, 8.75% of BOLIVIA's total imports and, respectively, were down 40.26%, down 43.21%, up 8.78%, up 121.94%, down 8.58% comparing with the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, the trade surplus of BOLIVIA was mainly from INDIA, JAPAN, SOUTH KOREA, ARGENTINA, AUSTRALIA at 83.0943 million, 48.9034 million, 41.8760 million, 41.2418 million, 29.9369 million, and down 3.98%, up 310.65%, up 37.34%, up 73.94%, down 35.33%. And the trade deficits were mainly from CHINA, CHILE, SINGAPORE, MEXICO, PERU at 60.4898 million, 52.8971 million, 11.5479 million, 11.4982 million, 9.3914 million, and down 56.57%, up 192.14%, up 1323.22%, down 34.00%, down 60.55%.

Current year until 202101, BOLIVIA's trade surplus or deficit with top five countries/territories During the current year until 202101,  commodities with hs2 codes, 27, 26, 71, 23, 84, were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities. They correspond to the import and export values of 295.7438 million, 192.4937 million, 155.0561 million, 55.7544 million, 54.6463 million, which were down 9.36%, up 14.01%, down 19.35%, up 60.07%, down 35.74% comparing with the same period of last year and account for 23.51%, 15.30%, 12.33%, 4.43%, 4.34% of BOLIVIA's total imports and exports.

During the current year until 202101, 26, 27, 71, 23, 15 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import and export values of 192.4934 million, 165.9712 million, 154.1466 million, 53.3456 million, 35.8845 million. These values correspond to 27.79%, 23.96%, 22.25%, 7.70%, 5.18% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 14.02%, down 37.51%, down 19.46%, up 74.53%, up 46.72% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, 27, 84, 87, 39, 72 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities, with total import values of 129.7726 million, 54.4690 million, 49.5837 million, 34.5584 million, 28.4421 million. These values correspond to 22.95%, 9.63%, 8.77%, 6.11%, 5.03% of BOLIVIA's total exports and, respectively, were up 113.81%, down 35.92%, down 52.37%, down 20.50%, down 44.19% comparing to the same period of last year.

2. Current year until 202101, BOLIVIA binational trade profile

According to Dalian Infobank, during the current year until 202101, BOLIVIA-China binational exports and imports of goods amounted to 145.8264 million and were down 29.23% comparing with the same period of last year. Among these, exports from BOLIVIA to China were 42.6683 million and up 27.79%, imports from China to BOLIVIA were 103.1581 million and down 40.26%. The total binational trade deficit was 60.4898 million and down 56.57%.

During the urrent year until 202101, commodities with hs2 code, 26, 84, 85, 87, 40, were binational trade's top five traded commodities. They correspond to import and export values of 33.9749 million, 15.9218 million, 12.3687 million, 11.5244 million, 7.9231 million and makes up 23.30%, 10.92%, 8.48%, 7.90%, 5.43% of the total binational imports and exports. These values were also up 30.46%, down 28.83%, down 45.86%, down 52.51%, up 22.15% comparing to the same period last year.

During the current year until 202101, 26, 02, 44, 25, 10 were the top five traded commodities exported to China from BOLIVIA, with export values of 33.9749 million, 5.3785 million, 1.8724 million, 0.6790 million, 0.2031 million. These values account for 79.63%, 12.61%, 4.39%, 1.59%, 0.48% of BOLIVIA's total exports and were up 30.47%, up 43.08%, up 109.08%, down 15.95%, up 277.18% comparing to the same period of last year.

During the current year until 202101, 84, 85, 87, 40, 39 were BOLIVIA's top five traded commodities importing from China , with import values of 15.9218 million, 12.3687 million, 11.5244 million, 7.9231 million, 6.5138 million. These values account for 15.43%, 11.99%, 11.17%, 7.68%, 6.31% of BOLIVIA's total imports and were down 28.83%, down 45.86%, down 52.51%, up 22.15%, down 34.76% comparing with the same period of last year.

3.Analysis of import and export trends

Data Source: Instituto Nacional de Estadistica